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Itai Bar-Natan's avatar

"I choose as my first book topic not the most... important topic,"

What are other topics which you think are more important on which you think you have a book's worth of material to contribute? For instance, the topic of prediction markets might fall into this category. Or do you see more important topics which you can't yet contribute a book's worth of information, but the only immediately visible obstacle towards acquiring an expertise is lack of interest?

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I think I learned the first two years of physics stuff mostly by playing with lab equipment. Lab classes are supposed to help with that, but they struck me as too structured. I got a part-time job in the dept office. Once I had a key to the equipment rooms, that's when I played. The second two years were different, but I learned the most by stepping outside the structured labs. In grad school, I met people who did not learn this way, but their approach to physics mostly baffled me.

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