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He says in the Sequoia hagiography he never would read a book.



Yes. Yes. That's the joke here. That the guy who decried traditional forms of communicating information and styled himself as some sort of nu-genius philanthropist was hoisted by his own petard. That if he had even a fraction of the intelligence he thought he had he would have realized that he didn't have nearly the knowledge needed to do what he claimed he would do.

His books are a mess because he had no idea of how to organize them.




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