Reading

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.

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READING

1. Reading shouldn’t be a goal —instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit .


2. It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, something you look forward to each day. That’s why setting too many reading goals will be counterproductive. It will put pressure on you, and that’s the opposite of relaxation.


3. Remember that this is a

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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: