What do we need to know to start making a difference?

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My Dorm Room Fund friend John Forbes asked me an interesting question today: What’s requisite to knowing enough to go understand/(some cases) work with (close to) anything, well, at a white paper level? In other words, what are the foundational kinds of knowledge that, if we have it, can accelerate the way we learn everything else? Our...