Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
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How Do You Read So Much?
Other academic fields, especially economics, has a common language. And sociology doesn't have the common framework. If an argument takes ten pages, it's almost certainly too complicated,. Right? So think many of us are here, so we can ask the question, and how do you read so much? By reading a lot. It took me 52 years to read that book. I'm a very, very slow reader. You're just miss suring the unit. If you think i read something quickly, i iemver. People don’t get that. 50.years is my average time for reading fiction. Maybe a little faster than most people. But within the normal bounds.
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