![]() ![]() ![]() This is not the only thing that makes me think HtRaB is more about being able to understand a book than understand the world, although it’s the only one I can articulate. ![]() This seems to me to be setting up both the author and the reader to throw out a lot of information because they weren’t expecting to see it or couldn’t fit it into their existing frameworks- reading like a state, in essence. What I can say is that it expects books to follow a rigid structure, and to have a single unifying point (what they call “the unity”). ![]() What subset, you might ask? I don’t have a great answer, because the authors clearly consider the subset to be the only books, or the only books worth reading, so they didn’t leave a lot of clues. It took me a long time to put my disappointment into words, but with the help of someone on Facebook I finally figured it out: How to Read a Book is aimed at a narrower subset of books than it acknowledges. How to Read a Book ( affiliate link) is generally very well regarded in this area and came with a strong recommendation from the CEO of Roam, who I would expect to have pretty good thoughts on learning structure. You might think I should have started with that, but it was useful to get a sense of what problems I needed to solve before I looked for the solution. As part of my research on how to bootstrap understanding in a field, I’m reading books that attempt to answer that question. ![]()
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