In the beginning, learning is the journey to the frontier of knowledge. To know what is known.

But once you get there, you stare out into the abyss and then you realise. Our maps are small.

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It’s especially evident in medicine. It seems like one of those fields where we know a lot, but once you encounter some difficult to diagnose issue, you quickly realize how little is known.

Yeah, medicine is the one field where I know that I know absolutely zero. 😂

I just don’t understand it at all. I know anatomy and some basic stuff but medicine is the opposite side of the map of human knowledge to all the thing I’ve spent time on.

These knowledge maps are cool if you haven’t seen them, it’s worth learning about the structure (and the gaps!).

Where can you do this? Looks interesting.