• @dexa_scantron
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    94 days ago

    “I’m addicted to reading, which explains how I ended up being a writer.”

    “Oh, yeah?” says SBF. “I would never read a book.”

    I’m not sure what to say. I’ve read a book a week for my entire adult life and have written three of my own.

    “I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that,” explains SBF. “I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”

    https://lithub.com/crypto-nerd-sam-bankman-fried-who-just-lost-16-billion-would-never-read-a-book/

    • @cmbabul
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      2 days ago

      The moment that statement became public is the moment everyone invested with his bullshit should have pulled out. It’s so profoundly stupid, ignorant, and arrogant that everything else he ever said should have been tainted by it