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If you search with the term "book" here and sort by date it's pretty impressive how often books come up. But also, Wikipedia.org is reading too, and I personally find that search term way more interesting.

Broad and shallow knowledge can be really helpful for building connections, creating new knowledge with overlaid metaphor, and priming the intuition.

Plus a lot of people here are very deep workers during hours 9-5, and break time is just going to have to be the opposite in most cases...




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