# The Need to Read

<http://paulgraham.com/read.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

Reading makes you a better writer. Writing is thinking. 

> But if you need to solve a complicated, ill-defined problem, it will almost always help to write about it. Which in turn means that someone who's not good at writing will almost always be at a disadvantage in solving such problems.

Reading will make you a better thinker, if augmented with writing. 

This is one of the reasons I blog and write the Weekly Thing.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT236: Weekly Thing #236 / ChatGPT, Reading, Legitimacy](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/236/), Notable

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