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Library on Mars Reading in the 21st century

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And you’ll have a semantic mental ‘framework’ in your brain on which to then hang all the great things you learn from your reading, which makes it more likely that you’ll retain that stuff as well. I read somewhere that Bill Gates structures his famous “reading weeks” around an outline of important questions he’s thought about and broken down into ... See more

Nabeel Qureshi • How To Understand Things

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How to Remember What You Read

Shane Parrish fs.blog

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Here are some thinking prompts you can use while reading:

• How could I put this in my own words?

• How do I know this is true?

• How can this be applied to my life?

• How do I feel about this?

• How would I improve this?

• How would I change this?

• How would I explain this to a 5-year-old?

• What is the main idea here?

• What is this similar to?

• What is

Mario Da Silva • 3 Quick Tips for Set Up Your Writing Routine and Never Run Out of Things to Write

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Reading and writing were therefore inseparable activities. They belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things, for the world was full of signs: you could read your way through it; and by keeping an account of your readings, you made a book of your own, one stamped with your personality.

Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

What will be the fate of reading? I don’t mean the left-to-right movement of the eyes as we take in information, but the age-old practice of addressing the world by way of this inward faculty of imagination. I mean reading as a filtering of the complexities of the real through artistic narrative, reflection, and orchestration of verbal imagery.

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

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“The kind of computing these LLMs are doing, this kind of intelligence, is just different. Is that an existential risk? Well, I come back to the fact that we have no idea how the human brain works.” It’s easier to imagine catastrophic things than see the opportunities, he points out.

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Rare AI project that helps make creative works (high literature) accessible / reimagine the way books can be enjoyed (from a solitary, passive experience of becoming list in the fictional world of a book → having a reading buddy to collaborate with in digesting and making the books personally relevant)

Rare AI project that helps develop human creativity, on the prerequisite that the reader actively engages with the LLM through “marginilia” the way book lovers scribble books with notes.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

Mortimer J. Adler

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