"And that argument is anti-intellectual at best and, pardon me, at worst just plain old bitchy and stupid."

The argument. But much of what follows it has been too. If you're someone who reads for a living and you can't identify the subject of a sentence, they should probably find someone else.

FYI I write for a living.…

You're so mean to a total stranger, it's incredible. I'm not saying that to guilt you or cut at you or something, it really is just amazing to watch. If you'll scroll up and re-read you'll see that until telling you that we were done, I never made any personal swipes at you, only dealt with the arguments you were…

If you have to explain it, it's not working in your favor. ;)

If I keep prodding you will you keep going? I totally get your username now, by the way.

Keep fapping that self-righteous negativity, man.

Yeah, we're done. It makes me sad too but you're hell bent on talking to yourself. See you when that's over!

"People like you," "clearly you... want to subscribe hook, line and sinker." Aaaand we've gone off the rails.

As you say, you were trying to provoke a discussion. You provoked a discussion. This is the discussion you provoked. I love it when people use that line to duck out of doing exactly what they claim they're…

This is clever, but it's seriously inconsiderate and wasteful (at best) or just downright dishonest and selfish (at worst). I'm not denying that the individual effect is probably miniscule, but what you're actually doing is advocating that it be done on a mass scale, the effects of which wouldn't be, and in the end it…

Evernote is so good. That's all.

Benjamin Franklin, like so many other historical figures we've come to recognize as geniuses, was an avid reader. Do you think that reading about discoveries, breakthroughs, methods, and rises and falls of others had nothing to do with his later accomplishments? Genius just emerges from the ether? It has nothing to do…

You make a fair point, but as Franklin's #13 illustrates, people — even geniuses — need examples to draw from. And that's what these sorts of articles are about. It's not paint by numbers. It's studying the techniques of former master painters so that you don't have to spend all your time reinventing them and can just…