My Dorm Room Fund friend John Forbes asked me an interesting question today: What’s requisite to knowing enough to go understand/(some cases) work with (close to) anything, well, at a white paper level? In other words, what are the foundational kinds of knowledge that, if we have it, can accelerate the way we learn everything else? Our conversation went many places, but I thought I’d extract an idea I landed on that seemed particularly elegant. --- I think domain-specific knowledge falls ...
