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Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.
Mark A. McDaniel • Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
I used references generally speaking, but The first time I really internalized the importance of references was watching Gilmore Girls for the zillionth time.
Recently I’ve been reading about the importance of context in expressing to the reader where in the lattice of human knowledge your thoughts lie. Sort of like a map to you main point.
This con
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Creativity Fundamentally Comes From Memorizationshwin.coThe thesaurus sucks. You can always tell when a writer is using a thesaurus and random words are substituted to sound smart. The problem is the thesaurus has a bad architecture. It's flat. Everything connects to everything (the original sin), and it treats every synonym as equal (they're not!). Since we don't have a hierarchy of "core words" and "s
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