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"plaintext": "This doesn't mean I won't learn or do interesting things in my life. I will, but I imagine most of the time they will come up on the side rather than being the main thing. And I imagine often I'll decide that, for that period of time, I really do value learning something interesting. In which case, it would then be the most important thing!"
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