![]() An hour is quite a good length of time to pick up a few fragments of background historical context for something you’re interested in. ![]() I have one or two more ideas for speedruns in this area. I have a very minor side interest in the history of schools and universities, so if I come across something intriguing, like Renaissance abacus schools, it’s a good way to learn a few basic things quickly. Speedruns are great for topics that you find interesting but are never going to devote serious time to. Here are a few rough categories of topics I’ve tried so far: Writing notes as I go means that I’m making enough active effort that I end up remembering some of it, but I know the process is timeboxed so it’s not going to end up being one of those annoying ever-expanding writing projects. Sometimes I don’t even manage to leave Wikipedia! Even so, this technique works well for topics where the counterfactual is ‘I don’t read anything at all’ or ‘I google around aimlessly for half an hour and then forget it all’. Obviously, there’s only so much you can learn in an hour – calling this ‘research’ is a little bit of a stretch. ![]() So far I’ve done speedruns on Marx on alienation, the Vygotsky Circle, sensemaking, the Prussian education system, abacus schools, Germaine de Staël, and mess. Do a very quick editing pass to fix the worst typos and then hit Publish.Find out as much as possible about the topic before the buzzer goes off while writing up a live commentary.It’s a very simple format, so this section will be short: So I thought I’d write it up here and see if anyone else wants to experiment with it themselves, or suggest different things to try. It’s been more popular than I expected and it looks like there’s a lot more that could be done with the idea. The ‘research speedrun’ is a format that I’ve been playing with on here for the last year or so.
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