What an amazing write up. I feel that most industries not just VC or edication have a huge issue with actually thinking about how to help and guide the new students of their industry.
I didn't really see this until I started working on my own startup to help founders using AI. A big issues which ties into your chain of idea thought is that as a founder/vc/or other person who needs to learn things, you try and craft your own strategic chain of ideas or lessons that you need to then find the resources for.
The issues as you mentioned is that the resources are all based on books 1.0, so there is an inherent ineffectiveness that is built in. That people who are veterans overlook and blame the people for (ad-hominem). Meaning most industries are never able to actually bring in disruption or innovation to the education infrastructure that they are built on.
2nd point is that books and most other mediums don't give the studen the ability to see all of their options. Meaning they only see what is presented, or more commonly said "they don't know what they don't know". This what is commonly referred to as tribal knowledge or the "when you've done your time" type of knowledge.
There is a solution though. As there is a clear line of how AI is going to bring about a new form of leanring, that is way more efficient. It's this belief and exploration of this new UI/UX over the existing data that we are riding on. Where you show a founder all options given a topic, and then personalize the explanation on their needs. This reduces a ton of the friction from books 1.0, while allowing for deeper learning through conversation, and the ability to immediately act on the new knowledge. It's been proven that the act of doing or teaching back dramatically improves retention and understanding. AI removes the friction from doing, and can be there every step of the way to provide course corrections when the user needs it.
To me Book 2.0 isn't a new medium, but a new ui/ux for the existing and new educational data.
I agree with you insofar as your assertion that “reading” is just the first step. There has to be a distillation, a reflection of what one has read in order for knowledge to be transferred from medium to individual
But I don’t think this supports your assertion that books are ineffective at doing so.
The fact that most books are not “quake books” or that many modern nonfiction books could have been a blog post or that most people don’t derive value from reading, sounds like a skill issue, on authors and consumers respectively
Nevertheless I may be biased due to my own love and admiration of excellent writing and I appreciated reading your take
Such a great deep dive. Strongly recommend you follow https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuawohle he is really driving this agenda through his company Mindstone. Impressive team
What an amazing write up. I feel that most industries not just VC or edication have a huge issue with actually thinking about how to help and guide the new students of their industry.
I didn't really see this until I started working on my own startup to help founders using AI. A big issues which ties into your chain of idea thought is that as a founder/vc/or other person who needs to learn things, you try and craft your own strategic chain of ideas or lessons that you need to then find the resources for.
The issues as you mentioned is that the resources are all based on books 1.0, so there is an inherent ineffectiveness that is built in. That people who are veterans overlook and blame the people for (ad-hominem). Meaning most industries are never able to actually bring in disruption or innovation to the education infrastructure that they are built on.
2nd point is that books and most other mediums don't give the studen the ability to see all of their options. Meaning they only see what is presented, or more commonly said "they don't know what they don't know". This what is commonly referred to as tribal knowledge or the "when you've done your time" type of knowledge.
There is a solution though. As there is a clear line of how AI is going to bring about a new form of leanring, that is way more efficient. It's this belief and exploration of this new UI/UX over the existing data that we are riding on. Where you show a founder all options given a topic, and then personalize the explanation on their needs. This reduces a ton of the friction from books 1.0, while allowing for deeper learning through conversation, and the ability to immediately act on the new knowledge. It's been proven that the act of doing or teaching back dramatically improves retention and understanding. AI removes the friction from doing, and can be there every step of the way to provide course corrections when the user needs it.
To me Book 2.0 isn't a new medium, but a new ui/ux for the existing and new educational data.
Great piece!
I agree with you insofar as your assertion that “reading” is just the first step. There has to be a distillation, a reflection of what one has read in order for knowledge to be transferred from medium to individual
But I don’t think this supports your assertion that books are ineffective at doing so.
The fact that most books are not “quake books” or that many modern nonfiction books could have been a blog post or that most people don’t derive value from reading, sounds like a skill issue, on authors and consumers respectively
Nevertheless I may be biased due to my own love and admiration of excellent writing and I appreciated reading your take
Such a great deep dive. Strongly recommend you follow https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuawohle he is really driving this agenda through his company Mindstone. Impressive team