There is no royal road to knowledge. One has to engage with a book in order to retain not just the conclusions of the book, but also the reasoning that led to the conclusions.
But what if there was? Certainly with hard work and deep reading, you can learn a good amount from books. However, the central point of the piece is that this is not the optimal way to learn. What if with other mediums you can have a lot of this work done for you, learning more material in less time?
More seriously, I would love for there to be a better way to learn than books, but in practice, books inhabit a sweet spot at the intersection of information density, ease of searching, and portability that’s hard for other forms of media to match.
But what if there was? Certainly with hard work and deep reading, you can learn a good amount from books. However, the central point of the piece is that this is not the optimal way to learn. What if with other mediums you can have a lot of this work done for you, learning more material in less time?
If wishes were horses, all men would ride.
More seriously, I would love for there to be a better way to learn than books, but in practice, books inhabit a sweet spot at the intersection of information density, ease of searching, and portability that’s hard for other forms of media to match.