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> Besides, how presumptuous is it to proclaim "how dare you to think your text is important enough that I study it"? Not at all. I'm 30. I'm going to live to b
by scarejunba 8y ago
> Besides, how presumptuous is it to proclaim "how dare you to think your text is important enough that I study it"?
Not at all. I'm 30. I'm going to live to be 80 at best. I've only fifty years left. Fifty years of fifty weeks each. 2500 weeks of 7 days each. If I spend two hours reading every day, that's 35000 hours left. That's 70000 half-hour works.
Is this work in the top 70k that Man has ever written? That's the standard. I only have one life. And to me it is everything. What I read needs to be at the 99.999th percentile. Life's too short for anything else.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoAnd yet you are chitchatting on HN instead of reading one of those top works.
- scarejunba 8y agoBecause those need attention. If I'm waiting for my Lyft to take me to my book club meeting, like I am right now, I only have three minutes. I can't use that to make any progress on Conjectures and Refutations. So these things have poor cost structure for what they provide. I like The Economist on my morning fifteen min BART for instance. And that's because that's dense. But if I have half an hour, that's enough for me to read something worthwhile instead of this stuff.
- andrepd 8y agoAgain, that's not the point. That tirade has nothing to do with the article, it's just something you wanted to say.
- Treegarden 8y agoAnd yet I think that is much more interesting and valuable then the article.