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You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you can’t measure (let alone remember) the impact of a book in your life then it wasn’t worth reading. Emerson articulates with acute brevity something I couldn’t suss out in my own thoughts, let alone put into words. It’s a good reminder to be mindful of my content diet — you are what you eat read, even if you don’t always remember it.
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