It is here; they used the highly reliable Alex as one of their main sources. He makes an important point:
Cowen’s secret? “He reads unbelievably quickly,” Tabarrok says.
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So, how is it that you read incredibly quickly?
You were friends in highschool with Daniel Klein and Randall Kroszner? I smell a sitcom.
Yah, that is a great question. How do you read so quickly? Inquiring minds want to know, and the article DID say you like to help people…
What, you expect Tyler to answer scores of e-mails with complete sentences? This man thinks on the margin, folks!
I have a healthy distrust of people that read too quickly.
You can read very quickly only if you don’t expect that what you read is deep and important enough to challenge the conceptual net you use to understand the world, except at a superficial level.
On the bright side, a lot of reading material is superficial enough that reading slowly is not needed. On the dark side, we need to be skeptical of the quick reader’s assessment of a challenging book — except when he tells us that he read it slowly.
Come on, don’t be like that… Tyler is a very smart guy, you can’t really argue with that. (or: where is your +10000 hits a week weblog?)
I didn’t want to detract from Tyler’s accomplishments — for instance, he is a very high rated chess player, not an easy task to achieve without even reading anything about contemporary world art, economics and medieval literature. So clearly his conceptual net that I talked about is none too shabby.
I just wanted to point out that fast reading has costs beside the upfront cost of reading a lot.
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