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Adams smart
From the archive. This was posted in 2004, so links and opinions may have aged. New writing is in my newsletter.
steps: about 150000
listening to: David McCullough’s John Adams
I sometimes have a tendency when reading/watching/listening to biographies of smart people to take pleasure in the failings and weaknesses of the person rather than being amazed and impressed by how far above me (intellectually) people like John Adams were. I realize that this is wrong, and that Ayn Rand would have something to say about it.