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37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Short History of Time App Could Be a Very Time-Efficient Way to Avoid 300 Page Books

The app is an attempt to change the way people absorb and learn information. The activities are just fun and interesting and they're illustrations of stuff so that you can go through them and then you walk away having learned it is you thought that people will read the books first and get the lessons reinforced to the app or that the app potentially becomes a very time-efficient way to avoid having to read 300 page books that only make a couple pointsYeah i imagine that for a lot of people they will do the app and then for some it'll motivate them to read more detail in the book because it's also more interesting to read a book when you've got a lesson from it motivated you and pushing you

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