[laputan_machine]

It might be terrible advice for someone who is ignorant on a lot of worldly topics -- but if we take the demography of HN, literate, well-educated individuals who already have probably read many dozens to hundreds of books, it's not terrible advice. A lot of the books on that list are 'self-help' books, you read them, they make you feel good, you achieve basically nothing. It's just feel-good filler.

I'm _assuming_ that's what the parent comment meant by 'read less, do more'. It's not 'read nothing, do more'.

[Zarath]

So true. It's easy to get stuck in the "preparing to live your life in the way you want" cycle instead of just doing it.