Reading
sari added 5mo ago
sari added 6mo ago
- I like to think of it it with the question: what is to reading what a text-editor is to typing? Social features for sure. We could also experiment with crazy stuff like SYNTACTIC SPACING. Here's an illustration on a paragraph from Doug Englebart's Augmenting Human Intellect:
Alara added 7mo ago
- In Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, the profoundly human (i.e., imperfect) teacher, Hector, reminds his students that “The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, may... See more
andrea added 9mo ago
David Pennington added 10mo ago
How to Read: Lots of Inputs and a Strong Filter · Collab Fund
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David Sherry added 1y ago
- The one thing I do try to follow is to go on streaks of reading a lot of books on a particular topic around the same time. Doing this is useful because it means I don’t have to just trust one author’s perspective on a particular topic, and it helps me connect a lot of facts together, so I can understand things better.
from How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine by every.to
Shachaf Rodberg added 1y ago
- Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubertfrom Tweet by Dylano | Essayful
rob hardy added 1y ago
- Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, reading text somehow remains more refined, more seductive.
phoebe added 1y ago
Andy Claremont added 1y ago