In Reading Redux, Plus A 501 Productivity Roundup I wrote:
Lest you think having a large candidates library is bad, consider this passage from Taleb's The Black Swan: "Read books are far less valuable than unread ones." (He attributes the "anti-library" to Umberto Eco.)
To this reader Jim emailed me this question:
What exactly is the point of the anti-library? The things we don't know is more important than the things we do?
