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How to live an intellectually rich life - by Utsav Mamoria

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Click any link that leads to a Wikipedia entry. For that page, click the first hyperlinked word in the main text. Keep doing it - Your journey will look something like this. Now, try this for several pages. Make them as varied as Nuclear Gandhi, Cow Tipping, and Exploding Trousers. All of them will lead you to the Wikipedia entry on Philosophy. In 2017, three mathematicians from the University of Vermont published a paper titled Connecting Every Bit of Knowledge: The Structure of Wikipedia’s First Link Network. They tested this hypothesis over a dataset of 4.7 million English Wikipedia articles and found that philosophy was the page where the highest no. of articles ended. 95% of all Wikipedia articles led to philosophy. What is the point of this? Imagine you are sitting in a meeting at work. The discussion is around the plan your team had set in motion last quarter, and the results are being reviewed. Data is being twisted and harassed to confess to whatever version of reality the gro

How to live an intellectually rich life .. and how living one is easier than you think Utsav Mamoria Mar 17, 2025 10,062 306 2,185 Share Go to the main page of Wikipedia. Click any link that leads to a Wikipedia entry. For that page, click the first hyperlinked word in the main text. Keep doing it - Your journey will look something like this. Source: GIF courtesy ‘Getting to Philosophy’ talk page , Wikipedia Now, try this for several pages. Make them as varied as Nuclear Gandhi , Cow Tipping, and Exploding Trousers . All of them will lead you to the Wikipedia entry on Philosophy. In 2017, thre

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