Experts should curate

the most common mode of Internet learning: picking up only the exact knowledge necessary to unblock yourself on a project.

there’s already a ton of great guides out there for most things you’d want to learn. The real problem is figuring out which ones to follow. If we want to increase the amount of knowledge in the world, the marginal unit of expert time is better spent organizing than producing.

The tricky thing is that most of these skills are catch-22s. How do you know to search for when you don’t know what you’re supposed to learn? How do you decompose a problem into steps when you don’t understand a problem? How do you know what the best guide is for each step when you don’t know how that step works?

That’s the process of learning anything on the internet. There are several metaskills at work here: Knowing what to search for Decomposing your need into different steps Knowing which guide to follow for each step