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Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?
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#32> When I’m surfing the web I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe’s political history or the nature of quasars That's the problem right there. Articles are the white sugar of information. They contain a tiny amount of actual info, but not enough to be useful in any meaningful way. If you truly want to learn about something, read a book or a paper. Articles will get you nowhere.
I call my blog posts articles.
They take multiple months of research.
What should I call them?
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#33> When I’m surfing the web I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe’s political history or the nature of quasars That's the problem right there. Articles are the white sugar of information. They contain a tiny amount of actual info, but not enough to be useful in any meaningful way. If you truly want to learn about something, read a book or a paper. Articles will get you nowhere.
I call my blog posts articles. They take multiple months of research. What should I call them?
OOC - could you share a link to your blog posts?
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#34> When I’m surfing the web I want to be drawn in by articles on Europe’s political history or the nature of quasars That's the problem right there. Articles are the white sugar of information. They contain a tiny amount of actual info, but not enough to be useful in any meaningful way. If you truly want to learn about something, read a book or a paper. Articles will get you nowhere.
I call my blog posts articles. They take multiple months of research. What should I call them?
Blog posts occupy the space between tweets and papers. Higher quality blog posts can contain a lot of useful information, but can never replace an actual deep understanding of the topic. You couldn't expect readers of your blog posts to then go on to write a novel blog post of the same quality on the same topic.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
>things that would be useful to know Again, I'm not talking about usefulness - it's altogether another dimension. >I find it difficult to diversify my interests Try a simple thing - pick anything outside of your interests and ask all sorts of questions about it to yourself, to see how much you really don't know. Some examples could be - where does it come from? who invented it? under what circumstances? how come it h…
> I promise - you will discover all sorts of strange, funny and fascinating stories which you could not imagine. This is a way to spark interest. Oh, I don’t have a problem finding interesting topics outside of what I already know: I spend too much time on Wikipedia reading random articles already. The issue I have is that I can’t bring myself to be interested in things I should cultivate an interest in, like machine…
>things I should cultivate an interest in
It's only you who defines these things. It seems that currently you find random Wiki articles more worthy than machine learning or databases.
You think it is not so, but do not discard what you are actually doing as "bad habit", "lack of discipline" or something - see that this is not coming from nowhere, this is what you want on some level.
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#36- “You’ve been clickbaited by your own brain”
- full-screen paywall whooshes in
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I call my blog posts articles. They take multiple months of research. What should I call them?
Blog posts occupy the space between tweets and papers. Higher quality blog posts can contain a lot of useful information, but can never replace an actual deep understanding of the topic. You couldn't expect readers of your blog posts to then go on to write a novel blog post of the same quality on the same topic.
I don't frequently find myself needing that level of knowledge
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#38Re: Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree, an article from a good subject/specialized encyclopedia (as opposed to a general encyclopedia) is an excellent introduction to a topic and will be written by scholars in that field.
I think by "article", the comment refers to article like in news or in some general audience site, not on specialized place.
There are news articles about the political history of Europe?
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#40One of the very few (somewhat) positive traits of having adult ADHD: this particular problem does not exist. If you want to be curious about something — even if it is a slightest spark of interest — it immediately activates to full-blown involvement, sometimes bordering on obsession.
I have spent a year studying quantum mechanics full time on my own, reading textbooks and practicing exercises, because I was mildly curious about quantum physics at some point. Got me fired from my job back then, as it had nothing to do with QM.
This is not always a good thing. :)