> Having a lot of information in your brain in itself has no value.
If you think of it as inert info, the accessing of which in the brain is equivalent to reading it on a web site...
But it isn't. Brains, especially in respect to deeply understood domain knowledge, change in response to how they're used.
Experts' minds create shortcuts to information in their area of expertise.
Having more information means having the ability to synthesize it, gain epiphanies that would otherwise be overlooked--and reading someone's blog post about their epiphany isn't the same as having it yourself.
If you think of it as inert info, the accessing of which in the brain is equivalent to reading it on a web site...
But it isn't. Brains, especially in respect to deeply understood domain knowledge, change in response to how they're used.
Experts' minds create shortcuts to information in their area of expertise.
Having more information means having the ability to synthesize it, gain epiphanies that would otherwise be overlooked--and reading someone's blog post about their epiphany isn't the same as having it yourself.