I don’t like the heavily blog inspired structure—I want something more like a book of core ideas
The ‘sequences’ link seems to cover this. The difficulty seems to be that reading the book-like format is not nearly as easy to motivate oneself to do.
In the last week I have gone through and converted all of the hundreds of core Eliezer posts into audio format and have them running nearly constantly on my ipod for the purpose of revision. It’s going to take days to get through them all even at that constant rate of consumption! I highly recommend this as a way to ‘work your way in’. It is not quite the same as reading all of the text but the cost is far, far lower.
PS: For obvious reasons I just had to upvote your other comment!
I find the sequences hard to penetrate. I’ve actually found MoR to be a much better introduction.
It seems like you’re not interested in a core, then, but a popularization. (This is intended as a clarification, not an insult.) If one wanted an introduction to Christianity, just opening up the Bible is not a good plan.
That’s somewhat true—I think a good introduction is a key part of what I’m looking for.
However I also like the fact that MoR is a well structured work (start reading at the beginning, continue to the end) with some sort of consistent editorial style, which the sequences seem to lack.
The ‘sequences’ link seems to cover this. The difficulty seems to be that reading the book-like format is not nearly as easy to motivate oneself to do.
In the last week I have gone through and converted all of the hundreds of core Eliezer posts into audio format and have them running nearly constantly on my ipod for the purpose of revision. It’s going to take days to get through them all even at that constant rate of consumption! I highly recommend this as a way to ‘work your way in’. It is not quite the same as reading all of the text but the cost is far, far lower.
PS: For obvious reasons I just had to upvote your other comment!
I find the sequences hard to penetrate. I’ve actually found MoR to be a much better introduction.
But either way I’d like to see them more prominent on the site.
It seems like you’re not interested in a core, then, but a popularization. (This is intended as a clarification, not an insult.) If one wanted an introduction to Christianity, just opening up the Bible is not a good plan.
That’s somewhat true—I think a good introduction is a key part of what I’m looking for.
However I also like the fact that MoR is a well structured work (start reading at the beginning, continue to the end) with some sort of consistent editorial style, which the sequences seem to lack.