# Put Your Cognitive Surplus to Good Use

<http://lifehacker.com/5590940/put-your-cognitive-surplus-to-good-use>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Internet expert and author Clay Shirky's new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, discusses how the internet enables us to use slivers of time our culture has historically spent watching television making truly incredible thingslike Wikipedia.More

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