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The Need to Read
Paul Graham · Passages from the same work, in order.
The Need to Read, Excerpt 1
In the science fiction books I read as a kid, reading had often been replaced by some more efficient way of acquiring knowledge. Mysterious "tapes"…
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The Need to Read, Excerpt 2
If you don't need to go too deeply into a problem, you can solve it without writing. If you're thinking about how two pieces of machinery should…
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