## Metadata - Author: [[thomas-chatterton-williams|Thomas Chatterton Williams]] - Full Title:: Kanye West, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Cult of Not Reading - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://web.archive.org/web/20230126164118/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-books-reading/672823/ - Finished date:: [[2023-11-26]] ## Highlights > As clever as that sounds, receiving all of your information from the SBF ideal of six-paragraph blog posts, or from the movies and random conversations that Ye prefers, is as foolish as identifying as someone who chooses to eat only fast food. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hg588b3ff0se7fz17ngc4rr4)) > when a book succeeds, even partially, it represents a level of concentration and refinement—a mastery of subject and style strengthened through patience and clarified in revision—that cannot be equaled ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hg588sfxr8y2sa705p7967sq)) > men—they always seem to be men ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hg58ardmzren2sx27pcm9tzm))