The speaker thinks intellectual progress comes from interpreting new books and ideas in the context of what one has read before.

“anybody who's not blogging is well so I think like the thing everybody does is they've read many books in the past and when they read a new book they have enough background to think about it like you are thinking about our ideas in the context of Joseph Hendrik's book I think that's good I think that's the kind of place that intellectual progress comes from”