Alright, I’m just some guy on the internet, and everything I say is bullshit. Except the following:

Learning comes from the doing.

Did I just (absolutely extremely succinctly) summarize how we learn stuff, in five words? Yes, yes I did. I didn’t go to school to figure that out. I just figured it out from the doing. Indeed, I also learned how to absolutely extremely succinctly summarize complex concepts that way too. In fact, everything everybody learns in school was first learned from the doing. No other way. Or maybe this knowledge came down from the heavens or some mysterious cave. On the other hand, continuity of acquired knowledge is primarily done with the mechanism of master-apprentice, and that’s precisely the mechanism used in school, except that teachers and professors (with few notable exceptions) aren’t actually masters of the knowledge they teach, instead they’re merely proficient in the teaching of knowledge.

Another thing I’ve learned from the doing. How to determine whether a thing is true even when I know little about that thing, so long as what I do know about it is fundamental to the thing. So here, what I do know about the video, which is fundamental to it (ironically enough), is that the speaker uses lots of flash (told you, irony) to somehow bolster its substance, when in fact it merely exposes the lack thereof. I will let others judge whether I’m right on this one. I won’t watch any further than the first few seconds I’ve already watched. Conversely, I’ve watched entire videos by Jordan and a few others which had exactly zero flash and were packed with substance. In this case, I could argue that my skill to determine whether a thing is true fails me, and it does. I have to watch the whole thing to determine this in the case of things that have so much substance. It’s like comparing a rock that’s all dressed up, and a highly complex and as-of-yet mysterious machine.