best advice ever!
N.N. Taleb aggressively makes this point in Antifragile too. After sticking to Taleb's advise for a year and reading only old things, not only did I stop writing myself, but I no longer think I have what it takes to contribute.
Everything that is worth writing about has already been written[1]. And if I contribute by writing myself I just dilute the pool of great prose by pissing into it. Most authors today (and 100% of authors on this list) have never read great books themselves and it's very obvious.
Reading new authors always leaves me with a feeling like I'm the rear end of the human centipede.
[1] anyone thinking about writing a book (or even a blog post) please before you start, proof to yourself that this sentence doesn't apply in your case (this is aka research and it doesn't stop with authors before your age - in fact it starts there).
EDIT: this list was created by Aphinya Dechalert (https://nz.linkedin.com/in/aphinya-dechalert-7b782480) who works in marketing and her job seems to be making spammy lists like this one. Looking at the OP's other submission it seems all links go to either her medium or her blog. On this tweet she is amazed by all the traffic her site gets after posting this very link:
> So...I relaunched http://DottedSquirrel.com as a community space a few days back. Went to have a shower and came back to this. I checked and made sure it's not bots. It's not bots. #100DaysOfCode #tech #learnToCode https://twitter.com/dottedSquirrel/status/120432373958576537...