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CellBioGuy comments on June 2015 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 June 2015 12:41:34AM *  4 points [-]

Reading the "Late Night Thoughts on Reading Scientology" article is like looking into a mirror. It's almost painful.

Why does my bedroom contain 343 books? (I counted just now.) Some of them I know and love, but many are on topics I have only mild interest in, contain only mediocre writing, and will probably never be read beyond the introduction – and this after throwing out half my collection once a year or so when I move.

Why does my hard drive contain thousands more books as PDFs, and my Kindle several hundred? Why do I have a hundred news feeds inundating me with thousands of blog posts, videos, and news stories a week, when only ten or so feeds really excite me? Why have I bookmarked hundreds of essays online in my “interesting, but I’ll get to this later” folder?

Why do I have ten or fifteen different hobbies I occasionally fantasize about pursuing, when one or two would be plenty to provide a social outlet and fill my idle hours? Why do I have a list of more than a hundred projects that would be “good to do some day”, none of which I’ve completed?

Comment author: CellBioGuy 02 June 2015 02:45:23PM 1 point [-]

I, for one, only put a book on a shelf once I've read it and lend out books from my collection on a regular basis...