I write handbooks

I look for interesting topics that are overwhelming. 

Then I spend hundreds of hours trying to make their mastery simple.

1. I pick a skill I want to be good at.
2. I research and experiment to uncover their principles. I question assumptions behind its conventional teaching.
   
3. I get my hands dirty. Because the "difference between knowledge and wisdom is experience,” and I need experience to teach.

Why I don't write books

I'm asked why I publish online handbooks instead of books.

Surprisingly, books are a worse medium for education and discussion:

• Books become outdated, whereas I update my handbooks yearly.
• Books lack audio and video, which are sometimes critical.
• Books contain boring filler to reach page count requirements.
• Book excerpts can't be linked. So, people rarely re-read them.

Great teachers—not experts—help you attain mastery. Because mastery requires tools over knowledge.

Bad teachers dump their thoughts onto paper then imply, “Here, you figure this out.”

Great teachers, on the other hand, appreciate how the brain works—and what it needs for comprehension.

So, I spend more time appreciating teachers than experts.

And I do so with the open-mindedness that teachers can be bloggers and podcasters. Not just professors.