> "If you're a beginner with X like I am, you may or may not have discovered" What’s a beginner? Reading 3 books on $topic will give you a deeper understandin

> "If you're a beginner with X like I am, you may or may not have discovered" What’s a beginner? Reading 3 books on $topic will give you a deeper understanding and appreciation for $topic than 99.9% of the population. Yet you are still at basically zero compared to the people who wrote those books. The people who wrote those books are at basically zero compared to the bleeding edge researchers who invested entire lifetimes into 1% of what the book covers. Those researchers are at like 60% compared to the researchers who are looking into the other 99% of what the book covers. By and large we are all beginners in almost everything.