As I get older, the more clear it becomes that ppl who read too much philosophy and other deep meta-thinking reflections end up bamboozling themselves
It's not different than eating too much and getting fat
Book gluttony is a thing
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I don't agree with this. You can be very focused on learning and be extremely action-oriented. I've always been deep into reading and philosophy. And I've built large, successful businesses along the way. Including our bitcoin business at Block.
I actually think having a philosophical mind can make you a lot better at avoiding bullshitting yourself and iterating yourself into corners. I credit a lot of my successful predictions and secular bets over the past decade to my predilection to careful counterfactual reasoning about things, that comes from carefully training your mind to challenge its own intuitions.
Okay people…what you folks reading these days…looking for my next read. Just finished The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
Fantastic history book
that makes sense with my experience.
YESS. Too much mind can hurt. It becomes delusions after some point.
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