Review books, or write about books you read. In the same mind as keeping an archive of your path, and as a counter to the ‘letting it all wash over you as you go’ mode, taking the time to think effectively about a particular text or series of texts, whether you loved it or not, can be extremely instructive for your own approaches.
Blake Butler • Maximizing Time for Reading
Sometimes I think of myself as unambitious these days, mistaking this downshift for stagnancy, which scares me, but I try to remind myself that slowness is not the enemy.
A kind of private tunnel vision that rearranges our reality so that our highs and lows are defined by only the most immediate wins and losses, with everything else rendered irrele
Book Chugging - Piece that explores the dynamic behind chugging books and offers an alternative.
“Combine this with our hyper-productivity culture today where speed and output are the key metrics by which we need to do everything. All of sudden my internal dialogue started looking like this:
‘Read more! Read more! Read more! Chug! Chug! Chug!’
I
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