Today is Day 1 of Ship 30 for 30.
In today's essay:
How do you learn about a new field from scratch? Where do you start?
Let me share a super powerful resource with you that makes this incredibly easy.
In today's essay:
How do you learn about a new field from scratch? Where do you start?
Let me share a super powerful resource with you that makes this incredibly easy.
If you wanted to explore a new field of knowledge, where do you start?
How about a curated list of the most influential sources, gathered from thousands of experts in the field?
How much would you be willing to pay for this? And what if I tell you it exists, FOR FREE?
How about a curated list of the most influential sources, gathered from thousands of experts in the field?
How much would you be willing to pay for this? And what if I tell you it exists, FOR FREE?
What's amazing is that you can get the most important works for over 60 fields without ever paying a DIME for a course at University.
Just go to OpenSyllabus: opensyllabus.org
Computer Science? ✅ Psychology? ✅ History? ✅ Much more? ✅
Just go to OpenSyllabus: opensyllabus.org
Computer Science? ✅ Psychology? ✅ History? ✅ Much more? ✅
OpenSyllabus ingests college syllabi from around the world, extracts information about which field the syllabus belongs to and then aggregates it to find the most assigned works across all of them.
It's the perfect place to start diving into a new field and get a broad overview of what people are reading. Is it exhaustive? Does it give you a learning path of which sources to read in what order? Does it give you summaries or anything else?
Nope. BUT.
Nope. BUT.
OpenSyllabus gives you a starting point for a choose-your-own-adventure style of exploring the field.
Take five books or papers that are linked and search for them online. Do they have pages on Wikipedia? That will give you some context for each. Who are they authors? What else have they written? What ideas do they touch on?
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