Beyond enjoying this channel, I’ve recently been thinking more and more about the value of older books. The trend of the modern internet seems to be leaning towards highly accessible but low quality information, and the amazing density of well-researched information in some older books astounds me.
That’s not to say that we haven’t made advancements (the volume of information I could find about Newport on, say, Tripadvisor vastly exceeds single-source publications like that in the video), but the combined influences of advertising, SEO, fake reviews, data collection, etc. has taken something away from this type of resource.
I recently asked my FIL how he learned how to build a house. I assumed his father had taught him. He referred me to a stack of about twenty books from the 80s.
For example, there’s a book on plumbing. Anything I need to know is right there. No website does that.
Beyond enjoying this channel, I’ve recently been thinking more and more about the value of older books. The trend of the modern internet seems to be leaning towards highly accessible but low quality information, and the amazing density of well-researched information in some older books astounds me.
That’s not to say that we haven’t made advancements (the volume of information I could find about Newport on, say, Tripadvisor vastly exceeds single-source publications like that in the video), but the combined influences of advertising, SEO, fake reviews, data collection, etc. has taken something away from this type of resource.
I recently asked my FIL how he learned how to build a house. I assumed his father had taught him. He referred me to a stack of about twenty books from the 80s.
For example, there’s a book on plumbing. Anything I need to know is right there. No website does that.