Similarly, I often force myself to write summaries of books I have read. I often “feel” like I learned something even though I can’t articulate what I learned or what I would do with that knowledge. Summaries help ensure that I’m not just taking that feeling of learning something at face value.
Yeah, me too. About writing summaries and about that feeling of having learned something being deceiving. I wonder if the latter is something that has been formally studied at all.
As for writing summaries, it’s something I am hoping to do a lot more of (on top of my desire to write more in a more general sense). I’m planning on writing summaries of the Rationality from AI to Zombies books. Doing so seems like a low hanging fruit that few rationalists have plucked.
I don’t know about formality, but Scott Young has frequently talks about the “Feynman technique” (writing summary as a way to learn) as a way to study.
please do that and post your results here! That seems like an incredible use of time, and a potentially excellent resource for the rationalist community
100% Agree.
Similarly, I often force myself to write summaries of books I have read. I often “feel” like I learned something even though I can’t articulate what I learned or what I would do with that knowledge. Summaries help ensure that I’m not just taking that feeling of learning something at face value.
Yeah, me too. About writing summaries and about that feeling of having learned something being deceiving. I wonder if the latter is something that has been formally studied at all.
As for writing summaries, it’s something I am hoping to do a lot more of (on top of my desire to write more in a more general sense). I’m planning on writing summaries of the Rationality from AI to Zombies books. Doing so seems like a low hanging fruit that few rationalists have plucked.
I don’t know about formality, but Scott Young has frequently talks about the “Feynman technique” (writing summary as a way to learn) as a way to study.
please do that and post your results here! That seems like an incredible use of time, and a potentially excellent resource for the rationalist community
Just posted Map and Territory: Summary and Thoughts.
Reading through it now, thank you for the excellent work!
Thanks for the compliment :)
Thanks! I plan on writing it as a separate post.