A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook.
Even though my own job is to learn things, I was shocked with how much more intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was.
So I asked if we could record a conversation about how he learns and a bunch of other topics:
- How he identifies and interrogates his confusion (much harder than it seems, and requires an extremely effortful and slow pace)
- Why memorization is essential to understanding and decision-making
- How come some people (like Tyler Cowen) can integrate so much information without an explicit note taking or spaced repetition system.
- How LLMs and video games will change education