What I find embarrassing about knowing just a little bit about a subject is that outside of a formal class, there are few places to talk about it; particularly, few places to talk about it with people who will bring your further toward understanding what you’ve learned. If you learn a little bit of the mathematics of a subject, you’re not interesting to the specialists, and most others won’t be interested in the subject at all.
It seems easier to find a community around learning things that are less academic subjects, where you’ll generally learn them in an informal structure anyhow—cooking, crafts, foreign languages.
(I do like the idea of The Simple Math of Everything...)
What I find embarrassing about knowing just a little bit about a subject is that outside of a formal class, there are few places to talk about it; particularly, few places to talk about it with people who will bring your further toward understanding what you’ve learned. If you learn a little bit of the mathematics of a subject, you’re not interesting to the specialists, and most others won’t be interested in the subject at all.
It seems easier to find a community around learning things that are less academic subjects, where you’ll generally learn them in an informal structure anyhow—cooking, crafts, foreign languages.
(I do like the idea of The Simple Math of Everything...)