> "When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process." Doesn't this depend a lot on what and how we're reading? I put a lot more

> "When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process." Doesn't this depend a lot on what and how we're reading? I put a lot more thought into some passages from a book than a Stack Overflow code snippet. HN posts fall somewhere in between, and sometimes even those can permanently reshape how I think about something.