(Note: I spent years writing a book called Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, which is about this topic) Although there are many good points in this post, it is s

(Note: I spent years writing a book called Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, which is about this topic) Although there are many good points in this post, it is strange and unnecessary to speak of books or lectures “not working” because transmission doesn’t really exist. I, too, am a constructivist. But books and lectures work just fine, thank you— because they help me construct. This is why I read slowly, and I read few books, yet own thousands of them (about 5000). Because a book is not full of knowledge bullets that are shot into my head. Books are full of clues that I use in my sensemaking process. I own books in anticipation of needing to binge on them when I encounter certain problems. What I wrote about in my book is designed to help other intellectuals put the clues together to construct their own education. That strategy depends on agency. Reading a book using your agency means you are in control, not the author. Anyway just because some dumb theory about how books work is wrong doesn’t mean books are broken. Search the term “swashbooking” on youtube for a different attitude.