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This Is Water by David Foster Wallace Full Speech
Joe Mita
David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, about the default settings of the mind, choosing what to pay attention to, and what we end up worshipping.
HN people point lost, lonely or burned-out readers to it as a short, humane piece of perspective on how to live.
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