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To meet this quantity you will by definition have to read mediocre / non-new (i.e. new in the Alan Kay sense) stuff. Books that are mind-augmenting require time
by cconroy 9y ago
To meet this quantity you will by definition have to read mediocre / non-new (i.e. new in the Alan Kay sense) stuff. Books that are mind-augmenting require time commitments that make getting to 100 impossible in a year. Any decent math text cannot be read in a week (or month even) and take time from reading other books to get to 100.
- alkyon 9y agoGerman philosopher Schopenhauer remarked that it is much better to read less then more exactly for the same reason - quality over quantity. Apart from this setting such goals as 100 books a year is a real killjoy (as if todo lists had not enough items to check off already).
- nileshtrivedi 9y agoSchopenhauer on Reading: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/08/schopenhauer-on-reading/ https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2015/08/schopenhauer-on-rea...