Content tagged with “skill-building” under “My Library”

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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch

Section: Deane’s Library
Type: Book Review
Date: February 15, 2017
Words: 59

“Scary to comprehend how screwed we are if we have to rebuild. Lots and lots of science – perhaps too much, but that’s really the point. Redeems itself in the last chapter, when it explains that the greatest invention is science and measurement itself. We can’t investigate what we can’t measure, and…”

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Section: Deane’s Library
Type: Book Review
Date: August 24, 2023
Words: 153

“This book annoyed the hell out of me. This is another book that doesn’t really describe anything in any objective sense. Rather, it’s a…'meditation’ on something. It comes off feeling indulgent and narcissistic. The writer jumps around. He talks about how he tried to master drawing, then he goes…”