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Why expertise feels worthless in the age of instant research

Everyone I know has strong opinions about topics they learned about five minutes ago online, and I'm starting to stay quiet even about things I actually know well.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The flattening of knowledge hierarchies makes deep expertise appear equivalent to surface-level research.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Printing press and knowledge democratization?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.