[readlikeasloth]

Warren Buffet stories are like Chuck Norris jokes. Buffet does this, Buffet does that. Oh well.

I just see a pattern in that story: Save your precious time. Use your resources in a better way. Be more efficent. Amass more resources (that could be personal fitness or wealth as well). Here the resource is knowledge. And they finally turned the quiet nerd realm of reading books in solitude into competition and sports.

Wondering what you do after year two when having read 400 books. Will you be able to recite what was in book number 42? And then what? You start a discussion with your coworkers about Plato or some obscure sociological theories? You could do that but this might not go anywhere (speaking of personal experience here).

I guess the idea is to speed read your way through as fast as possible to get the numbers right. So you can simply throw in some quotes like the article did with Orhan Pamuk. Why not ambling a bit and enjoying books instead?