Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes

Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by abnry on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:17PM (#19046477)

So I think this is true, but it is not necessarily a terrible thing. It is one thing to memorize a summary of a book. It is another to engage with and apply the ideas in the summary. The goal of a book is to hopefully give you enough time and space to do that.

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Re:Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Lik... by StavrosK on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:22PM (#19046534)

Unfortunately, most of the books I've read just have the extra material as filler, and don't lead to much engagement. It was just anecdotes like "the nurses in hospital X reported that their bosses were 30% assholes, and in hospital Y they were 96% assholes, so it's no wonder hospital X saved 49% more patients!" and other non-sequiturs like that.

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