The Case Against (Most) Books
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Taking opportunity costs seriously in the quest for knowledge
Essays The Case Against (Most) Books Taking opportunity costs seriously in the quest for knowledge Richard Hanania May 10, 2023 281 161 30 Share Many effective altruists and rationalists oppose reading books. This position is easily mocked, but as someone who is familiar with the way academia and publishing work, I think it has a lot to recommend to it. According to the great moral leader Sam Bankman-Fried, I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that…If you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog
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