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    Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

    Dwarkesh Podcast · Jul 12, 2023 · 2 h 23 min
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    A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook. Even though my own job is to learn things, I was shocked with how much more intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was. So I asked if we could record a conversation about how he learns and a bunch of other topics: * How he identifies and interrogates his confusion (much harder than it seems, and…

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