Autodidact And Hacker

Notes For Self-Education

Jillian Hess | Noted | 13th April 2026

Feynman was a prolific autodidact and worked out his thoughts through note-taking. He would break subjects down to “essential kernels”, a way of thinking from first principles. He maintained a “Notebook of Things I Know Nothing About”. “For Feynman, not-knowing was an exciting state.” “I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong” (1,800 words)

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How To Walk Through Walls

Henrik Karlsson | Escaping Flatland | 14th April 2026

When he was 22, Robert Rodriguez wrote, directed and sold a 90-minute action movie at a total expense of $7000, a third of the cost of a film trailer. How? By adopting “hacker mindset”. There are people who accept the superficial view of a system and conventional wisdom on how to do things. Then there are those who understand the nuts and bolts of the underlying system and use them effectively (3,000 words)