Comment by BMc2020
3 years ago
The result is a pseudo-dialog—not between a commenter and people who replied to his comment—but between different commenters who steal the focus of the discussion to their own opinion.
Yes! In fact, this is how I ended up fixing my paradox of choice whenever I want to learn something new. For any topic you choose, there are millions of comments, thousands of online articles (mostly blogs), hundreds of websites, tens of online courses, and a handful of books (in any form). Which one do you think was harder to do? (Hint: the books). Which one do you think really went through some rigor and thought-plan to make their content as accessible to you as possible? (Hint: the books, then MOOCs). Which one can you read casually to get an intuition about a subject? (Hint: maybe blogs written by those who got that intuition). Choose wisely.
It’s a trade off, like most topics, those who are extremely knowledgeable don’t always have time to write whole books and reach large audiences by creating content in smaller form factors.
Massive amounts of voluminous text that add little to no value. Difference is once you have written it off, it feels like you just saved a bunch of time, but you didn’t, since the goal is to learn, not to save time.