> Don’t read this book for its content; read its content for its practices.
— 📖 Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools
also: always look for applications
⁓ well-used systems naturally grow complex
a meta observation, definitely (at least at times) see that in my "reading system"
~ reading too fast or too slow is harmful
Pascal observed three hundred years ago, “When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
— 📖 How to Read a Book
sounds like Goldilocks principle
~ read quickly by reading a lot about a topic
The basic principle is easy to grok: once you’ve read enough books about a single topic, it becomes trivially easy to read a new book on that topic. This experience should be familiar to computer programmers: for every n programming language you know, the n+1 programming language you adopt becomes easier to learn
— Reading Quickly is Reading a Lot
(great post to re-read in general)
~ note-taking while reading interrupts flow
~ read a page of a book, close the book, write down what you remember
— The Best Learning Tool in History - 400 years ahead of its time!
- well this only works if the book is really that good...(or/and you care that much about every detail)