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Learning By Writing

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An outline of how I form detailed opinions on topics: by exploring hypotheses and writing about them, not by undirected reading.

Click lower right to download or find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc. I have very detailed opinions on lots of topics. I sometimes get asked how I do this, which might just be people making fun of me, but I choose to interpret it as a real question, and I’m going to sketch an answer here. You can think of this as a sort of sequel to Minimal-Trust Investigations . That piece talked about how investigating things in depth can be valuable; this piece will try to give a sense of how to get an in-depth investigation off the ground, going from “I’ve never heard of this topic before” to “L

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