Not OOP but - they sell you pop science (or economics or what have you) and make you think that after reading 1 book you'll be an expert in that field.
Most people haven't studied any single field deeply, and they don't know how many hours of commitment it takes, how much practice, how much failure, how many projects & validated hypotheses it takes to actually understand something.
Reading a book written for non-experts is barely going to give you a sense of what you don't know, nothing more.
They're implying, "read this and you'll become an expert." Again try to read this through the eyes of someone who hasn't become an expert at anything. That's the target audience. Anyone who has, would never read the most popular book on a subject to learn from it, They'd read the introductory books meant for people who are planning to go on to study that subject.
> they sell you pop science (or economics or what have you) and make you think that after reading 1 book you'll be an expert in that field.
No, they do not. I picked one interview at random and one from the homepage:
The interview about food books¹ has one solely about cheese which is praised for the photographs. On three of them the story of the people is the focus.
The interview on perfume² has two fiction books.
> They're implying, "read this and you'll become an expert."
This is demonstrably not the case. These are books on specific subjects that certain people familiar with the fields find interesting and worthy of your time. No one is selling you the idea that you’ll become an expert if you read them. You might be assuming they are, but the content tells a different story.
Most people haven't studied any single field deeply, and they don't know how many hours of commitment it takes, how much practice, how much failure, how many projects & validated hypotheses it takes to actually understand something.
Reading a book written for non-experts is barely going to give you a sense of what you don't know, nothing more.
They're implying, "read this and you'll become an expert." Again try to read this through the eyes of someone who hasn't become an expert at anything. That's the target audience. Anyone who has, would never read the most popular book on a subject to learn from it, They'd read the introductory books meant for people who are planning to go on to study that subject.