Love this surprisingly insightful and useful theory of “step-by-step-ism” from Venkat:

Tagging an interesting microtrend that also looks important: a “step-by-step” ethos developing momentum. A general interest in break-king illegible learning processes into their component steps and refining them. A kind of process skill mindfulness. Like 6-sigma but for learning.

— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) May 26, 2022

In particular:

I have a theory in this. I’m very fond of the notion of “threshold concepts”. It’s the idea that there are crucial concepts in any discipline that have a paradigm shifting impact on the mind. They’re take you over a threshold that changes your perspective. pic.twitter.com/L5TbaP9akF

— drnick 🗳️² (@DrNickA) May 26, 2022