Andy Matuschak
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Interviewing Joe Walker about his interview research learning process
🕑 Added 2025-02-09 19:00:09 +0000 UTCJoe Walker has a wonderful podcast doing deeply-researched interviews, mostly with people who haven't done long-form interviews before. To prepare for one of these interviews, Joe will spend hundreds of hours reading, studying, and writing. Then, a few weeks later, he'll shift to a totally different domain. So along some strange axis, he's a sort of Olympic athlete of learning.
In this video, I interview him about his learning process. We look at some of his knowledge management systems. There's a lot of spaced repetition discussion. I hope this surfaces some useful tacit knowledge!
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Can Sar
For the short term benefit of prompts, I think you've mentioned this in the past: It helps checkpoint your understanding and make sure that you're actually absorbing the material rather than just glossing it over. Longterm memory is definitely a benefit, but I find that it helps me even a chapter down the line. Michael Nielsen's Seeing Through a Piece of Mathematics paper is a really strong example of this.
