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The article is just toooooooo long. If want to develop my brain in some other way, I can always read some real literature, instead of newspaper articles. Or I c
by ciupicri 18y ago
The article is just toooooooo long. If want to develop my brain in some other way, I can always read some real literature, instead of newspaper articles. Or I could even visit some art galleries with paintings, sculptures and so on.
And even if the article is useful after all, if it's written badly, in a non-interesting way, people won't read it. That's why Joel is so popular. Because his articles are a joy to read.
Anyway, if I really wanted to know more about how people think, I would study Psychology (or Sociology) and spend more time with them in real life. Some people just aren't meant for this kind of stuff. The last universal man was Leonardo da Vinci.
P.S.: I loved your last sentence.
- birdman 18y agoI really liked it. I read the whole thing in one shot, which isn't like me. I actually started re-reading because I was afraid I may have missed details at the beginning when I wasn't yet aware that it deserved my attention.
- peregrine 18y agoThis is real literature, its writing in the purest sense. Yes it is long but probably worth it. The last page itself is good enough to justify the article. Studying psychology only gives you an understanding of the workings but not a feel for humans. Psychology mostly searches for patterns in humans, and often times misses the big picture. Its tricky to understand but after reading that article and getting to the end to hear about what happened to create the person you read about in the beginning you feel like, or at least I did, you know him. You see that it takes a lifetime of experience to create any one person and lucky is the person whom gets to truly know someone.