You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
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You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
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#2Is the Internet a great enabler or is it holding the majority of us back?
Does this mean I'll never escape the influence of those decades of corporate email?
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#3What about people that don’t read at all? Are they nothing?
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#4Is the Internet a great enabler or is it holding the majority of us back? Does this mean I'll never escape the influence of those decades of corporate email?
I would argue it's not an either-or. The Internet enables us to share the information that's most relevant/efficient, and it makes this information so accessible that the opportunity cost for NOT accessing it is increasingly high.
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#5I've always believed that two things will broaden your horizon - travel and reading.
If you don't have the means or the time to travel then your next best option is reading.
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#6except when an AI does it they call it "copyright violation"
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#7What about people that don’t read at all? Are they nothing?
The anecdote at the end of the post expands it to what we hear/learn in general.
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#8What about people that don’t read at all? Are they nothing?
I suppose we could abstract this to "you are your experiences, even if you don't always remember them."
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#9I've always believed that two things will broaden your horizon - travel and reading. If you don't have the means or the time to travel then your next best option is reading.
We need to qualify what we mean by “travel.” Airline pilots, stewardesses, and other people that travel a lot for work or other purposes do not necessarily have the “broadest horizon.” I think we should use another term to mean “experience other cultures and ways of life.”
The same can be said about reading. Reading the entire One Piece manga series is not necessarily gonna broaden your horizons.
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#10What about people that don’t read at all? Are they nothing?
They're illiterate, which is a tragedy.