How to Read Better
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    • On Non-Linear Reading
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      • Networking / Associative Reading
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  • Reading Deeply: Going From Passive to Active
    • The Death & Rebirth of Highlighting
    • Feynman Method
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  • Remembering What You Read: Beyond the Book
    • Forgetting Curves & Spaced Repetition
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What follows are some resources that I've found valuable when thinking about reading & how to read better.

Blogs & Articles

On reading:

  • Advice from a cog sci professor on how to read papers

  • Farnam Street's articles on , , and .

  • Daniel Doyon at has a great series of articles. See parts , and of their reading workflow series.

  • Some good threads from MetaFilter: On , on , on ,

On notetaking:

  • - Start with their .

  • Dan Sheffler on , , and .

  • - Blog on notetaking by the philosopher Manfred Kuehn

On learning in general:

  • Scott Young's

Books

  • ​ by Umberto Eco

  • ​ by Mortimer J. Adler

  • ​ by Maryanne Wolf - A few interesting chapters on the neuroscience of reading & how our brains adapt to the practice

  • ​ by Nicholas Carr

  • ​ by Pierre Bayard

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Reading Difficult Texts
here
reading more
retaining what you read
how to read
Readwise
one
two
three
reading technical documents
tackling dense readings
how to really read a book
Zettelkasten Blog
curated article overview
the two goals of notetaking
reading notes
going from reading to notes
Taking Note
blog
How to Write a Thesis
How to Read a Book
Proust and the Squid
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read