Tweets on a single topic ("Book Burning") published within a short period.
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Jul 2 2011: When you read a book you're being controlled by someone else's thoughts. If you spend the time just thinking, you may accomplish a lot more. [view in context] 5392
Jul 2 2011: Books were the video game scourge of an earlier generation. 5393
Jul 2 2011: In the 20 hours it takes to read a book, think of all you could accomplish in the real world. 5394
Jul 2 2011: Just because you are reading instead of watching TV doesn't prove your time is being spent wisely. 5395
Jul 2 2011: Hypothesis: You learn more and retain it better if you graze for info as needed instead of taking it in sequentially on someone else's plan. 5396
Jul 2 2011: The traditional model of learning is a teacher forcing information into you in a sequence he deems appropriate. That's essentially a book. 5397
Jul 2 2011: The Wikipedia model of learning is you graze for information as you need it, when you're ready to integrate it into your schema. 5398
Jul 2 2011: The book is a product of the 15th Century innovation of moveable type. Is it still the most efficient way to convey information? 5399
Jul 2 2011: RT @jachy: @BadDalaiLama Actually both methods are appropriate and necessary, and JIT learning can't succeed if you don't know what to l ... 5400
Jul 2 2011: The book persists in the modern world mainly because it is a large marketable unit where publishers can still make a little money. 5401
Jul 2 2011: The dirty little secret about fiction: Novelists just make this shit up! 5402
Jul 2 2011: However good a novel may be, you're trapped in a simulation—a virtual reality—that is never going to exceed the experience of the author. 5403
Jul 2 2011: When you say that a book changed your life, you don't usually mean the whole book but certain memorable parts of it—not the whole 20 hours. 5404
Jul 2 2011: The main problem of reading a book is wading through the dull parts to get to the juicy and meaningful bits. The good parts aren't flagged! 5405
Jul 2 2011: You could spend years reading all the great works of literature, or just catch the Cliffs Notes versions online. Who is ever going to know? 5406
Jul 2 2011: The main cost of reading a book is "loss of opportunity"—i.e. the more productive things you could be doing with the time. 5407
Jul 2 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Books" 5408
Jul 2 2011: Weak and immature minds need more structure imposed from the outside. Strong minds learn in their own. [view in context]
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