Reading

insights on the art of reading

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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:

Eli Parra

x.com

Alara

Library on Mars

library-on-mars.com

Tanuj

Reading texts on computers is unpleasant

notes.andymatuschak.org

Tanuj

Solitude and Leadership

William Deresiewicz theamericanscholar.org

sari

BR for You.

bionic-reading.com

Kat Fergerson

How to Remember What You Read

Rosie fs.blog

sari

Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis

Kit Wilson thenewatlantis.com

Riley Crane

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.

Dan Shipper • How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine

Shachaf Rodberg

Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk book is out. It kicks off with the following quote: "To anyone I've offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"

James Stevens