A good book clears out stale assumptions and disturbs the old ideas a reader has let accumulate.

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• A book of radically unusual ideas drifts unread for centuries until a decade's new questions happen to be answered inside it, and then everyone reads it at once. APAda Palmer16 Jun 2026
• You should only start a book you believe is going to be great, whatever it turns out to be. MLMichael Lewis15 Dec 2025
• Because most people read so few books, almost any older book is effectively new to them. LMLincoln Michel10 Aug 2026
• People often support banning a book based on assumptions about its content rather than on having read it themselves. RHRyan Holiday6 Aug 2026
• Good ideas come from asking how you would solve a problem from first principles, rather than staying anchored on how it is solved today. JDJeff Dean30 Jul 2026

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