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2017 letter | Dan Wang

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Some of the things I learned in 2017; Buddenbrooks should be set in Hangzhou; the novelty of traveling in China; Deutsches Requiem in the Upper West Side.

I thought to write a post on some of the things I’ve learned in the past year, along with some recommendations on what you should see and read. Here’s a general principle I’d like to put forward: That learning, broadly defined, ought to accelerate over time. It’s an analytical error to analogize the growth rate of knowledge (and I’m going to be vague about this) to something like the growth rate of a country’s GDP. Instead of expecting it to slow over time, we should spend our days trying to accelerate the growth of our knowledge base. My observation is that most people expect learning to dece

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