HELLO, FELLOW ACX READERS!

(also, an announcement)

A few months ago, a book review appeared in the annual book review contest for Astral Codex Ten, my favorite substack. It was wordy, verbose, and meandering. It was interminable, long-winded, and tortuous. Some described it as “lengthy”.

Even if you haven’t seen it, you’re probably guessing right now that I wrote it. 

Indeed I did! And I’m delighted to report that it just won first prize in the contest.

(Historical question: is it the longest ACX/SSC post ever? If so, someone please engrave this fact on my tombstone.)

For those of you who haven’t read it, you don’t need to — at least not in order to understand the posts on this blog. But it does give the cleanest explanation of Kieran Egan’s paradigm of education that I’ve yet come up with.

(Since then, I’ve been hard at work to express it more pithily. Look for progress here in the next few weeks.)

And if you’d like to listen to the podcast reading of it, the three full hours of it can be found on the official ACX podcast here (Apple Podcasts), here (Spotify), here (the internet), or wherever you get your podcasts.

Sometime in the next week, I’ll be doing a special subscribers-only post (free!) in which I reply to some of the approximately fourteen billion comments on the book review. (I loved the comments. Even the ones I hated.)

Note: I typically turn off the comments; they terrify me in terrifying ways. (A weird thing about me that I struggle to explain — I’m ravenous for searing personal critique in person, but when I get feedback in print, I swell up like a kid having her first allergic reaction to peanuts.) But what the heck, I’ll experiment with turning them on for a couple days here.