Content tagged with “learning”

“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…”

“This is a good and practical book about teaching. It’s meant for school teachers, but I read it for tips on communicating ideas. The title refers to the scope of teaching – there are large-scale strategies to improving teaching across groups. But this book is about small teacher – how to improve…”

“This book is kind of pointless, but I’m still giving it four stars because it’s fun to read. It’s about Hollywood, and stars, and Ron Howard, etc. etc. The author’s point is that he’s been really curious his whole life. He has conversations with famous people, just out of curiosity, which I…”

“I was going to rate this book even lower, because it was just stratospheric in scope – it was so high-level as to be basically useless. There was just nothing at all tactical here; it was full of generalities that, honestly, seemed a little obvious. Additionally, the book seemed like a long…”

“Interesting book about how generalists have value, and there might be a myth about those single-minded people who start in one discipline and stay there. It’s good, but the different chapters are not well-differentiated – the titles are vague, and I had trouble following the development of the…”

“This was a tough book. It’s short (about 200 pages), but it’s dense – both physically and intellectually. The type is small, and the prose is scientific. The book is not a mainstream paperback. I half-suspect it wasn’t written as a book, but rather as a peer-reviewed scientific paper. It’s largely…”

“This book was not what I expected. I thought I was getting a book on information organization and architecture…but that’s not what this is. This is an art book. It’s a collection of the ways people have tried to express hierarchical information in tree forms for thousands of years. It’s a picture…”