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Re:Foundational knowledge is worth a thousand tools by urthor on Thursday January 12, 2023 @07:37PM (#34362428)
Ironically, in a Hacker News article clickbait title.

The clickbait title is more precious than its contents.

Foundational knowledge allows you to tie different facts together in your field. This rope vastly, vastly, aids comprehension.

Pushing and pulling on the rope shows cause and effect, brilliantly. Cause and effect, understanding allows you to do make effective things.

"Just read George Pólya's How To Solve It and William Zissiner's On Writing Well."

It all fits together after that.

Re:Foundational knowledge is worth a thousand tools by 4b11b4 on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:19AM (#34364236)
Zissner wrote great books about the importance of writing.
Re:Foundational knowledge is worth a thousand tools by urthor on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:08AM (#34364805)
He might well have.

I don't know the titles of any of them, so I can't comment.