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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I have a theory: The people that feign surprise ("You JUST learned about X?") are more often other 20-somethings looking to differentiate themselves as more in the know than others their age. Older members tend to either let newbies be or they appreciate a good resurfacing.
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Heh. I feel very subtweeted.
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Also, the funny thing about quality: most things are worth reading either 0 times (the great majority) or 100 times, IMO. Very few things are worth reading exactly once.
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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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I was, of course, speaking hyperbolically with the original 100. Substitute "multiple" or even maybe "5+" though and I'd stand by the statement.
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Okay but you’re also a guy who uses spaces repetition to iteratively read papers, so, I wouldn’t put it past you :)
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Incidentally, I should say that there are very few (if any) books I've read cover-to-cover 30+ times. I tend to reread by just opening to a random page and reading. But I'm sure I've reread parts of books like Cyteen or Genius (etc) 30+ times.
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(Basically, at any given time I'll typically have a small rotation of books I use to unwind by simply opening at random and rereading 20-30 pages. Some books stay in that rotation for years, and become very familiar.)
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