CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all
Hey, guys—I wrote this, and CFAR has recently decided to make it publicly available. Much of it involved rewriting the original work of others, such as Anna Salamon, Kenzie Ashkie, Val Smith, Dan Keys, and other influential CFAR founders and staff, but the actual content was filtered through me as single author as part of getting everything into a consistent and coherent shape.
I have mild intentions to update it in the future with a handful of other new chapters that were on the list, but which didn’t get written before CFAR let me go. Note that such updates will likely not be current-CFAR-approved, but will still derive directly from my understanding of the curriculum as former Curriculum Director.
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I strongly upvoted this.
On one hand – the CFAR handbook would be a weird fit for the anthology style books we have published so far. But, it would be a great fit for being a standalone book, and I think it makes sense to use the Review to take stock of what other books we should be publishing.
The current version of the CFAR handbook isn’t super optimized for being read outside the context of a workshop. I think it’d be worth the effort of converting it both into standalone posts that articulate particular concepts, and editing together into a more cohesive experience.
I like the epistemic status on the front chapter (“this book is written as a supplement to a workshop. We have no idea what will happen to you if you read it on it’s own!”) but ideally it’d be nice if we, like, tried having some newer people attempt to read it and see what does happen.
I am willing (but would require money) to do the work to make it a truly standalone book. I believe that I have strict advantage over any other human at making that happen.
(I think it’s something like 3-8 essays/chapters and a bunch of minor tweaks away from being a proper book.)
The CFAR handbook is very valuable but I wouldn’t include it in the 2020 review. Or if then more as a “further reading” section at the end. Actually, such a list could be valuable. It could include links to relevant blogs (e.g. those already supporting cross-posting).