on reading
Read a lot of high-quality stuff on a certain topic or time period. Recognize connections, reinforce them, prioritize retention over growth. Then, and only then, once your core is established, expand outward.
It’s like constructing a map instead of dotting a bunch of dots.
Not Boring • Read More Books
You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
You have to be good at reading, and read good things.
Paul Graham • The Need to Read
The best reading should ordinarily start with what I’m going to call a question, though I mean that in a very general sense.
Not Boring • Read More Books
The problem with books is that they end. They seduce you. They spread their legs to you and pull you inside. And you go deep and leave your possessions and your ties to the world at the door and you like it inside and you don't want for your possessions or your ties and then, the book evaporates.
Caroline Kepnes, You (You, #1)
“There's a second component of reading that many people don't realize exists: searching for the good books. There are a huge number of books and only a small percentage of them are really good, so reading means searching. Someone who tries to read but doesn't understand about the need to search will end up reading bad books, and will wonder why peo... See more
Brain Food: The Rarest Thing You Possess
