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You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It - Jim Nielsen’s Blog

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Controls the level of style and functionality of the site, a lower fidelity meaning less bandwidth, battery, and CPU usage. Learn more. Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you can’t measure (let alone remember) the impact of a book in your life then it wasn’t worth reading. I don’t believe that, but I never quite had the words for expressing why I don’t believe that. Dave’s articulation hit pretty close. Then a couple days later my wife sent me this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. YES! Damn, great writers are sO gOOd wITh wORdz, amirite? Emerson articulates with acute brevity something I couldn’t suss out in my

Here’s Dave Rupert ( from my notes ): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you can’t measure (let alone remember) the impact of a book in your life then it wasn’t worth reading. I don’t believe that, but I never quite had the words for expressing why I don’t believe that. Dave’s articulation hit pretty close. Then a couple days later my wife sent me this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: I cannot re

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