General knowledge

Interdisciplinary, generally applicable knowledge is rarely taught explicitly. Yet it's important to have at least basic knowledge of many areas (as opposed to deep narrowly specialized knowledge), and to apply it to thinking about everything.

Blog posts

• The Simple Math of Everything
• No One Knows What Science Doesn't Know
• The Beauty of Settled Science
• Unteachable Excellence
• The Great Brain is Located Externally by Alicorn
• Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields by Vladimir_M

External links

• How to Understand Everything (and Why) by Eric Drexler
• How to Learn About Everything by Eric Drexler

See also

• Simple math of everything
• Separate magisteria
• Science
• Scholarship
• Understanding