"Part of what makes this compelling is not so much reading every tweet but just getting a real-time sense of how fast this is moving, " he said.

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Like every guy I know, I stopped reading actual books around the time DSL replaced AOL. Simmons also writes incredibly long.

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Every person has 13 cards in their reading, some of which change over time, that can tell you heaps about yourself.

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