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		marklgr on March 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Collector’s Fallacy So perhaps the author shot a lot of anecdotes at you and a few stick, but another author could have done the same job with half as many pages. Again, I'm not against storytelling or anecdotes.

mercer on March 18, 2018 [–]

Yeah, I don't disagree with that. I've all but stopped reading the books that are mostly anecdotes with about an A4's worth of actual information.

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