What You're Not to Read

Although I hope you read every word I've written, I understand that your life is busy and that you want to read only the need-to-know info. You can thus safely skip the sidebars — those shaded gray boxes that contain text. Sidebars provide supporting or entertaining info that isn't critical to your understanding of the topic. I use them to go off on tangents or present extended examples, so you can skip them if you want.

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