How to Be a Know-It-All (2017)

Post by dpflan » Mon, May 22, 2023, 5:31 PM UTC

dmurray wrote: post #19

dpflan wrote: post #7

It’s fun to learn facts, especially when presented well, indeed, but this article feels like it is really just an ad for the Very Short Introduction series, a project of Oxford University Press.

It's much more like a book review. A long and wandering one, with a digression into the subject of encyclopaediae in general, but it has as much criticism of the books as it has outright praise.

Post by tacone » Tue, May 23, 2023, 6:27 PM UTC

ricardo_nh wrote: post #8

people tend to forget that the very process of knowing is as important as the thing known. no one can be a know it all aiming for a collection of "the most important things to know". You are a know it all by being curious, attentive, willing to study and learn. It's the form, the process, the way of living. The separation between form and content has reached an all time high