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divya
@divyav.eth
“never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least thirty years. “ i have heard this before but never met/know someone who follows this. anyone here live by this rule?
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dutch
@ionoi
Not strictly but mostly I ignore fads
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
CS Lewis wrote about the chronological snobbery antidote to accepting the current intellectual climate at face value by alternating recent and old books. Taleb referred to the Lindy effect of older books in Antifragile. Mortality of the author wasn’t a necessary filter but just correlates with Lindyness
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alexander
@the-cynic
this is the first i'm hearing of this. interesting.
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kbc
@kbc
I try to ignore if a book is a bestseller or not. The guy who wrote about Dark Swan events also argues for it (N Taleb?)
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DV
@degenveteran.eth
I thought they said "never to touch a book" and I left really fast after that so ... Ya I live by that
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Ina
@beecurious
What book are you reading ?
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Jabo5779
@jabo5779
Baptism of time is an interesting choice of words. To describe only reading the works of the dead. Life is too short, I don't want to be bothered asking questions of living authors... Baptism of Death is more like it. 300 $tipn - living authors can do stuff like this... bet that never crossed Nagasawa's mind...
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