Interesting article. I think reading outside one's comfort zone (as well as programming outside one's comfort zone and meeting people outside one's comfort zon

Interesting article. I think reading outside one's comfort zone (as well as programming outside one's comfort zone and meeting people outside one's comfort zone) is valuable for a few reasons: 1) As Charlie Munger and others have said, to win an argument, you must know the other person's position in their own words better than they do. 2) Reading for reinforcement is useful hut has diminishing returns. I may not agree with a lot of Noam Chomsky or Ann Coulter but I have still read some of what they write. If nothing else it sharpens my reasoning. And it also opens horizons. 3) As the article states, being narrow is boring. 4) Being broadly read provides access to ideas that others don't have.