Thought experiment. Take the top 7 books that have shaped your thinking as a “stack” in the software sense running on the hardware of your brain. Would someone else who shared your top 7 be able to follow along most of your thinking, say 80%?
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My point is, it wouldn’t work
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My guess is that people reading the same books already thought the same way beforehand, and are probably slightly more aligned afterwards.
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This assumes books are the algorithm. They’re not. They’re the training set. What you learn in the first few years, your learned approach to the world is the algorithm.
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The other assumption that seems built in is that books are only valuable as a chunk of information. But the value of that information depends on the experience you bring when you’re absorbing it, and, more importantly, the work you out it to afterwards.
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To me, the combo of experience + practice + chance influences the impact of any book more than the content of the books itself. And I’m saying this as a fanatical reader, so I’m not trying to minimise the importance of books.
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