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by lamby 2099 days ago
Hubert L. Dreyfus's "On Internet" contains, amongst many things, one of the most succinct overviews about how one goes from novice to expert. I highly recommend reading this short book, especially in this time of online learning:

https://cryptome.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz/On-the-Internet.pd... (PDF)

The later chapters on virtual worlds in the second edition have dated a bit, but before that, it's almost entirely gold, even though it was written so long ago.