Promoted to curated: I have only skimmed Atlas Shrugged (which is something I probably want to fix at some point), but even without having read it I still got a lot of value out of this post. In general I have a hypothesis that something in the space of “understanding and iterating on what broader attitudes I am using to interface with the world” is one of the key bottlenecks for many people in both their development for epistemic and instrumental rationality, and this post felt like it helped me make some progress on that. I also liked the commentary and advice on how to read and learn from both non-fiction and fiction books.
Promoted to curated: I have only skimmed Atlas Shrugged (which is something I probably want to fix at some point), but even without having read it I still got a lot of value out of this post. In general I have a hypothesis that something in the space of “understanding and iterating on what broader attitudes I am using to interface with the world” is one of the key bottlenecks for many people in both their development for epistemic and instrumental rationality, and this post felt like it helped me make some progress on that. I also liked the commentary and advice on how to read and learn from both non-fiction and fiction books.