The path toward mastery: How to become an expert in a field
That seems to misunderstand the path from apprentice to journeyman (singular) to master. Look to actual (not software) engineers for that. They still do it and they somehow managed it even with present day educational standards.<p>There is also a deep misunderstanding of what the Internet is. It&#x27;s not a &quot;third dimension&quot; or a set of marketing hype. It is an engineering marvel. Which again drives home that the author has no grounding in engineering.<p>This &quot;pyramid of mastery&quot; is roughly as sensible as organizing your bookshelf by color. It might please the eye of a layman, but makes no sense to the knowledgeable. There is no sense of sweep and scope of concepts and instead everything is labelled by size of something a novice can easily identify. Never mind that this shape would be an inverted pyramid given the current taxonomy and concept of size, it just doesn&#x27;t make sense as a path toward mastery.<p>Then there is cyclic learning, not drawn because apparently it would spoil the oversimplified diagrams.<p>I don&#x27;t understand this piece. It&#x27;s not trying to sell me anything. If it were, it would be better designed to a purpose. For charity&#x27;s sake, I&#x27;ll choose to believe it&#x27;s an apprentice&#x27;s draft, a first effort at prose.