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Same. But sometimes I like skimming it just as a distraction. There's something so satisfying about seeing these tricks I'm far too stupid to come up with on my own. A couple of times, I've had some breakthroughs when stuck on an unrelated problem, while reading this book, because the "psychedelic hackery" sort of leads me down an alley I wouldn't otherwise have thought of, due to some superficial similarity.


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