Twice as good

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CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 1y (12 replies)

Well but if you solve 50% of your problems, and then another 50% of the rest, you'll still have some problems left 🙈

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 30 pts · 1y (6 replies)

25%, specifically.

Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Just buy another book then, you'll have only 12.5% of your problems left.

Hmmm, this is going to take forever...

flughoernchen@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Better buy all the books and then not start reading even the first one ever.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

No, I will absolutely read the first 2 or 3 pages before I quit.

OK, maybe just the first page.

ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y

Nah you'll quickly be close enough to functionally have 0 problems.

jaybone@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Pretty soon most of your problems will be related to buying and storing books.

CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Of the original 100%, yes.

towerful@programming.dev · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I saw a book titled "How to solve 50% of your problems", so I bought ∞

VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y

Well now you moved the problem forward. The new bottleneck is reading all ∞ books

topherclay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Zeno is gonna be really upset that you are reading from their diary.

expatriado@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

have to read it in parallel, not in series

gumball4933@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Race condition: You have solved the same 50% problems twice.

BlackLaZoR@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Entire book: "Be rich"

uraniumcovid@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

we are about 30 seconds way from amazon selling books by chapter.

BlackLaZoR@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Chapter 1 How to be rich: Sell this book

LostXOR@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
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VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y

Untold part of the book "Don't be black or a woman or with a disability or...

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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I once found a book that actually improved my life. It's "Discover What You're Best At" by Linda Gail.

I always thought I just hated work, and then I found out that if I have a job I don't hate I can enjoy life.

Dav09@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Nice. I'll buy two of that... just to be sure.

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

I've brought about half a dozen over the years. I give them away to people who are struggling. It actually helps.

xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

But my biggest problem is that I ran out of shelf space!

toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Perhaps they should dance on the head of a pin while they read it.

expatriado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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