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It wasn't, I read a lot, I just think it's really stupid and suboptimal to limit your learning and information consumption strategy to either fully reading (or

It wasn't, I read a lot, I just think it's really stupid and suboptimal to limit your learning and information consumption strategy to either fully reading (or skimming) long texts or ignoring them. I mean, why not spend <1 minute reading a TL;DR when it can sometimes give you most of the value and if not, provide you with information whether it's worth reading the whole thing. It seems like a good deal, why avoid it? I'd rather spend my time reading stuff thay has a higher expected value (e.g. a book about macroeconomics with great reviews if I'm interested in that topic) rather than random long texts on HN that can turn out to be complete garbage.

justin66 6y ago
Englebart’s is a pretty good example of work you’ll want to spend some time exploring on your own if you can, simply because it’s important and you shouldn’t fully trust a typical summary of his ideas. For example, plenty of people watch the demo I mentioned above and spend all their time marveling at the invention of the mouse, or some other detail of the hardware, rather than taking in what was really being explored by the users of the hardware in terms of human/computer and human/human interaction.