What to do when you are required to output knowledge that cannot be copied and pasted.

from /villagepump/knowledge-output-and-intellectual-production-flow. What do you do when you are required to output knowledge that cannot be “simply copied and pasted from a source”?

- If it is an unknown field, buy about three books by different authors in that field and read them at the same time - Doing this will not make you the world leader in your field, but you can reach "I know more than 99% of the world" rather easily. - Will it go to 99%? I doubt it. - But for now, the act of parallel book reading does it too, and it's good! - Perceived by the top group in the field as "well educated and easy to talk to" and by the majority of others as "someone who knows a lot". - Just by doing a pipe where information flows on demand, we'll be able to gather more and more useful information. - I'll do this. - childcare - Unknown programming language - When it comes to programming, you think, "I want to make ~," and then you ask, "What do I have to do to make ~?" to find out how to do it. - [[Delayed Evaluation Study]] - High value of non-public and non-electronic sources of information - Because information that's publicly available and digitized can be found in a search. - Books are OCR'd and made searchable. - I have PDFs in Dropbox. - It is sufficient if I can search for the electronic version of the data, even if I cannot publish it. - If given the chance, claim that you "meet the citation requirements" and publish it yourself. - Specific examples [/nishio/information card](https://scrapbox.io/nishio/information card).

• How do you choose your books?
  • How to Choose an Introductory Book
    • I might take the time to read that one book if it’s in a field with decent books like this.
    • Basically, most fields are not systematized properly, and people say different things, so you have to read more than one person’s work.
      • I felt that when I was researching this for childcare.
        • You’d think that if all you do is technical research in the IT world, the world would be full of such things, but of course it’s not…
    • Difficult to choose
      • Criteria for a decent book,[/villagepump/miyamonz.icon
        • amazon review
        • Google and read the stray article.
        • twitter search
        • I found all of the above to be “unreliable sources”.
          • I agree that it is an unreliable source.
          • But it’s true in that “someone wrote an opinion that ____” and I’ll refer to it rather often.
            • Regardless of the opinion claim, if the book is mentioned even n=1 times, the book is likely to be read quite a bit more than n=0
            • What does it mean that such a review is written? to be used as a basis for making a decision.
              • I won’t make the decision not to read it because it has a bad reputation.
              • In some cases, it could be because of a bad reputation that you read it.
      • in the case of
        • Whether the material is designated as reference material from the university’s syllabus
        • (not bestsellers) long sellers or not. - Test of Time だ
        • Whether it is recommended by someone you trust.
• Why 3?
  • You might see people say 3 is just the right magic number every so often.
  • No deeper meaning.
    • [/nishio/read three books in the same field and you will become an expert](https://scrapbox.io/nishio/read three books in the same field and you will become an expert).
    • I’d rather have two than one.
    • Even if you buy 10 books at once, you’ll read a little at a time anyway.
    • I’ve amended that to “about three books.”
      • It’s not a magical ritual, so it’s not important here at all.
• PS: If I trust a particular person very much, I may take the approach of reading three books by that person.
  • I recently bought three of Audrey Tan’s books.

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