Rhiannon Beaubien on Building Farnam Street and Mental Models
Elevate with Robert Glazer
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What's the First Principle of a Course?
So i did all my work on this, and then i realized that i was straying too far outside my circle of competence. So i came up with things that, a, it's got be something that people can do in their spare time to complete these courses. And when you thought about the courses, what was the first principle of a course that you came back to? The emotion. This is something that comes up all the time in writing, i'm going to be honest with you, fiction or not fiction. I mean, there's so many times that the the graveyard of examples for the great mental model’s book is dozens and dozens of pages. Sometimes it's hard
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