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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
What’s the most info hazardous short story (preferred) or novel you’ve read? That changed your behavior in some publicly visible way?
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Eric Hensley
@shonuff
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse made me less ambitious. Whoops.
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ȷď𝐛𝐛
@jenna
Heh mine was similar, a Heinrich Böll short story “The Tourist and Fisherman” in “Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral” (“Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity”). Found a bit on it here https://www.sloww.co/tourist-fisherman/ “Und?”
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