[Notes] In praise of slow thinking in the internet age

https://qz.com/1179304/in-praise-of-slow-thinking-and-socratic-ignorance/

It is good not to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that.

Avoid forming opinions if it is not a domain that you have put in a lot of effort. If before making your opinion public, all you have done is Google online and read a handful of articles, then it is just a piece of “opinion.” It worths almost nothing to the world or others. Whatever happening in Hongkong now, and whatever fire Trump is playing, I found myself know very little.

Obama, who was a voracious reader as a young man, committed to reading a book—not news—for an hour a day during his eight-year presidency, he told the New York Times.

See from now on, if I can stop reading news, except the news from the domain that I am working. Instead, read books and non-news articles.

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