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Ep. 238: The Joys of the Reading Life

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Start a Library From Scratch

Jesse: I'm a big fan of personal libraries. How do you start one from scratch? Well, all right, I have a method. Here's my here's my method. You start with a single bookshelf and you start filling that bookshelf somewhat haphazardly. Phil then replaced for a while to get the average quality up and wait until a shelf is of high quality before you actually move on to get a new shelf. Jesse: If the personal libraries we've seen or looked at in the show, probably our man Ryan Holiday wins. He's got a lot of books.

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