Knowledge compounds, it’s risk free, they make you wildly interesting, and they keep you out of trouble, and books cost basically nothing.What could be better?
I read for the same reason I do deadlifts, to do the difficult thing that has the unsexy but absurdly high return on investment. Most of the books I like are dense, written by long dead philosophers, and not well known. This provides me big value because popular new books are usually little more than good marketing.
I use this place to write my thoughts about books for a few reasons:
- Writing helps me mentally process books better. I don’t want to just say I read a book, that’s useless, I want to learn and I believe that requires an active component
- It provides my readers valuable content and insight into books they may want to read or avoid
- It helps funnel like-minded people to my social group. People who get excited about the same books and ideas as me are probably people I am excited to befriend.
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