The death of reading is threatening the soul
<i>The death of reading is threatening the soul</i><p>The death of thinking is threatening the soul.<p><i>• Bill Gates reads 50 books a year.
• Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every two weeks.
• Elon Musk grew up reading two books a day.
• Mark Cuban reads for more than three hours every day.
• Arthur Blank, a co-founder of Home Depot, reads two hours a day.</i><p>Yup. He didn&#x27;t get those factoids from reading books. Mayhaps he received these gems of wisdom from:<p><i>When I read an online article from the Atlantic or the New Yorker, after a few paragraphs I glance over at the slide bar to judge the article’s length. My mind strays, and I find myself clicking on the sidebars and the underlined links. Soon I’m over at CNN.com reading Donald Trump’s latest tweets and details of the latest terrorist attack, or perhaps checking tomorrow’s weather.</i><p>I have 20,000 books to the author&#x27;s 5,000. I&#x27;m not kidding. SQL database provided on demand. # books don&#x27;t matter so much, it&#x27;s what you do with them.<p>Reading is a proxy for thinking. Reading is only useful for those eureka moments (now called &quot;a-ha moments&quot; -- I guess it&#x27;s shorter?) and for information gain. A walk in the woods, a pithy tweet, an encouter (a dialog -- a communiation -- a discussion -- an interaction -- an intercourse) with another human (fucking) being can also provide that eureka moment.<p>Stop reading, start learning. The best education is observation and participation. I&#x27;m all for books, but if they ain&#x27;t teaching us about how to solve our own problems, then fuck them books. Get the knowledge, get the power. But be conscious, be aware, pay attention, did you miss it? You missed it. That&#x27;s okay, I did when I wrote it, but if you hash the previous paragraph (algorithm you&#x27;ll have to figure out), you&#x27;ll get 2 bitcoins. I hear they might still be worth something. I read that in a book.