A Critique of How To Culture: We find ourselves in a time where it’s possible to know how to do something without having gathered this knowledge by “doing” the thing ourselves. Scroll through any feed, and you’ll find a stream of hacks, tips, frameworks, and processes, all promising to teach you how to do just about anything. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this. After all, humans have always learned from each other. Teachers and instructors are valuable but I can’t shake the feeling that somewhere along the way we’ve become over-reliant on them: some things can only be learnt by experience. Perhaps the popularity of how-to guidance is because of the pressure to do things as fast as possible. When everything must happen at great speed then hacks, tips, shortcuts from someone else who has already done the thing seems like just what we need. We’re relying only on others to tell us what to do. And we’re forgetting something basic: real knowledge - the kind that sticks - come...