Designing and Developing New Tools For Thought with Andy Matuschak
Village Global Podcast
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How Long Should Non Fiction Books Be?
Some people think noto thre's something inherent about the process of reading a hundred, 52 hundred ages. That gets the mind working in an interesting way that articles oror shorter form books oud never do. We know very little about how memories are formed and how understanding happens. One thing that we do know is that heated stimulus of a particular idea is a really good way to cause it to be ncoted durably. If you read a long book about a topic, and despite its length, it is sufficiently engaging to actually get you to pay attention to it andnd think about it at least a little bit over many days, then you'r going to have a much higher
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