Claims

You understand the change better by being curious and reading history, not because mainstream education presents it to you; if you are not actively interested, you will miss the frameworks that explain what is happening.

Paul Graham's claim that reading trains your model of the world and those effects persist even if you forget the specific content is true to some extent, but whether that extent is sufficient depends heavily on what you need—if your aspiration requires deep detailed understanding, then just imprinting on your worldview may not be enough.

Skills have utility independent of narrative; architecture classes teach how to build bridges that don't fall, and this objective utility is what creates actual human progress.