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But we will download it and put it in our special folder.

>> This is so enticing to read, but alas, life is so short.

Seneca has a brief treatise "On the brevity of life" that counters this exact feeling.

In sum, it's not that life is too short (and the art too long), it's rather that we're not optimal in our use of life.

It's worth a read - or a save in the special folder :)

... next to my 40000 other papers / books / sites that I MUST read.

Glad that I'm not the only one doing just that.

If only we spent less time collecting things on Hacker News and more time actually pursuing our interests…

I have reality -> that's the thing i'm working on, which happens to be a bunch of very hard problems which I need resolved as that's for a client. Then I have a dream -> that's the thing I want to do before I expire. And most theory is for the dreams, but the 'easier' project already needs a lot of research & effort.

May be collecting things on HN is the interest of people here.

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