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Human rights, logic, progress and the very idea of an independent self are all children of the written word.
Drawn from what Cal Newport said
A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.
What Cal Newport actually said
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Computer science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work
essentially every cultural attribute that we celebrate – from human rights, to logic, to progress, to the very notion of an independent self – are conceptual children born from the mind-shaping power of the written word.
Where this was said
↗Why Reading Matterscalnewport.com
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