Thompson How I Research a New Subject

How I Research A New Subject - There’s no magic bullet

Note captured: 07/03/2023

Bookmark created: 07/03/2023

Start by getting a 50,000-foot-in-the air view

core concepts
major thinkers
common jargon

Go deeper with scholarly and industry material

read more technical work on the subject
- scholarly papers
- technical journals

Take tons of notes

clip stuff from sources AND synthesise in own words (critical)

Look for experts and people with authority

keep note of names
- experts
- authorities

Follow up on everything

tolerate digression to read up on lateral links

Persist, persist, persist

no magic bullet to avoid putting in the time
comprehension tends to go in bursts

Seek “saturation”

The moment when you feel like you’re no longer encountering novel information.
Good sign that you are ready to produce your product