I do take that advice, and it works pretty well.
One of the great things about being alive now is that most famous people you respect have written something that you can read. Adam Smith is famous for The Wealth of Nations, and you can buy your own copy for cheap or download it for free. Why read about it when you could read it? Similarly, Feynman is an awesome physicist and great teacher, why learn physics from someone else when you could learn it from him?
Well, it turns out that there's actually some pretty good reasons, sometimes. The Wealth of Nations i...
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