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This is the best thing I've read about reading on the internet. "An education is not something you get, but something you claim... There is no shortcut for the conquest of meaning. And ultimately, it is meaning that we seek to give to our lives." 👏👏 (h/t )
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Hmm... counterpoint, speaking as producer of longform and generally averse to listicle content, I’m skeptical. Most long things are long because their writers enjoy going long, not because they cannot be short and digestible. Most books could be blogs, most blogs twitter threads.
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That's true... and a lot of long-form is needlessly verbose. But by and large, the pillars of my worldview (much of which sits on your ideas) are built on long-form. Your Breaking Smart series - which is now enhanced by your online workshop - springs to mind.
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Heh entire content of that is also compressed into 4 tweetstorm summaries, each under 30 points, which would actually be enough for people with the right background 😀 All known physics can be compressed to equations that fit into ~2 pages.
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Yes and. For the great many people without the right background to correctly decompress a given idea — with few priors — the compressed versions still provide an accessible path in. Lower time ask. Higher signal. Compression creates 🚪 more doors into every big idea.
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