Permanent information is buried in books instead of headlines
Summary
- Permanent information is buried in books instead of headlines
Details
- Temporary information is very easily available, but shallow
- Permanent information doesn't expire
- Permanent information compounds over time
- Permanent information helps you understand why things happen
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Quotes
Permanent information is harder to notice because it’s buried in books rather than blasted in headlines. But its benefit is huge. It’s not just that permanent information never expires, letting you accumulate it. It also compounds over time, leveraging off what you’ve already learned. Expiring information tells you what happened; permanent information tells you why something happened and is likely to happen again. That “why” can translate and interact with stuff you know about other topics, which is where the compounding comes in.
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