The Need to Read
BlogPaul GrahamJun 14, 2022
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Reading isn't optional, even in the YouTube era. There's a category of ideas you can only access through dense, sustained text. Reading also trains the kind of attention you need for original thinking. Don't replace it with podcasts, videos, or 'audio summaries'.
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November 2022 In the science fiction books I read as a kid, reading had often been replaced by some more efficient way of acquiring knowledge. Mysterious "tapes" would load it into one's brain like a program being loaded into a computer. That sort of thing is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Not…
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