How to live an intellectually rich life

Go to the main page of Wikipedia. Click any link that leads to a Wikipedia entry. For that page, click the first hyperlinked word in the main text. Keep doing it - Your journey will look something like this. Now, try this for several pages. Make them as varied as Nuclear Gandhi, Cow Tipping, and Exploding Trousers. All of them will lead you to the Wikipedia entry on Philosophy. In 2017, three mathematicians from the University of Vermont published a paper titled Connecting Every Bit of Knowledge: The Structure of Wikipedia’s First Link Network. They tested this hypothesis over a dataset of 4.7 million English Wikipedia articles and found that philosophy was the page where the highest no. of articles ended. 95% of all Wikipedia articles led to philosophy. Most of these articles were 10-30 clicks away from philosophy. Source and Credit (work done way back in 2011): Matt Kelcey What is the point of this? Imagine you are sitting in a meeting at work. The discussion is around the pl ... Read full article.