
Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
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Do You Discard Too Many Books?
You might be more willing to finish a physical book because it has an embodiment. But serious readers probably finish too many books and sit through too many movies. I'm not anti book, but once you've read a certain number of key earthquake world view shattering books, books are way overrated. They're actually a pretty weak ent way of learning new things. If your goal is simpl to learn something, so often reading a blog post is better than reading a book - even if the book is much longer. Otherwise there are probably too many books.
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