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city-journal.org Spotting Talent | City Journal

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Key Idea

How you spend your free time actually matters a lot and says a lot about you

What are the open tabs in your browser right now?” The authors contend that this question captures a person’s intellectual habits, level of curiosity, and how he or she spends her free time, all at once. (View Highlight)

What the book describes as “downtime revealed preferences” are more interesting than “stories about your prior jobs. (View Highlight)

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The tension between something being practical and being for show