20-somethings play a valuable ecological role in Twitter communities IMO: Discovering ideas/content for the first time, which older members will view as "classics", and enthusiastically sharing. Used to mess w/ my head ("others probably know this") but now I see it as a positive
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Right! That is why I was very excited about
@posobin's HN classics site (plugging again: http://posobin.com/hn_classics/ ). I remember wanting a classic's feed while reading the "Let's ban new books" section of this@gwern essay https://www.gwern.net/Culture-is-not-about-Esthetics#lets-ban-new-books …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This is why resurfacing of gems is so valuable, IMO.
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also, the age-based social structure
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Is there anything you've actually read 100 times? (Related: this article, which calls it "centireading" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/centireading-force-reading-book-100-times-great-idea … )
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I've read some of my own writing 100+ times, in the course of revision. Otherwise, I'm not sure I've read anything that much. A few of the things I mentioned elsewhere in this thread are 30+, though.
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hmm. your tweet seems like it only needs to be read once. so it's perfect, I think?
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Maybe you could read it 100 times, and report back?
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What are some things worth reading >10 times?
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I'm sure that varies aa lot from person to person. A few things I've read > 10 times include large parts of Bhatia's book "Matrix Analysis", large parts of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", James Gleick's book "Genius", "The Lord of the Rings", Carolyn Cherryh's "Cyteen", and many others
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That is fairly impossible, if you do not read it how do you know is not worth it. Some times you can guess but most of the times you need to read it once before deciding is not worth re reading it.
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It usually takes about 30 seconds to realize something is with high probability not worth reading. If the title is bad, if the first sentence is bad, if opening to a random page and reading a paragraph is bad... you need a v good reason not to go find a good book. Life is short
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