Finally starting to notice this striking inverse correlation between
- whether something is confusing
- whether you've read a book about it

This "google things as you need them" habit, I think, It's actually pretty bad

Somehow I taught myself this helplessness. Struggle over years. Feel like I'll never get it.

Have you read a book about it?

Well, no

@chris_martin vaguely related: the phenomenon of someone who seems really smart about everything, except the particular fields you know about, and then you're like 🤔