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Harvard Business Review

Marc Andreessen on how he spends his time, learns, the 'build' essay and much more.

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas.

No one’s making them try to read 100 books a year.

This is such a helpful tip for all of us.

Each is best suited to different purposes, and neither is superior.

Reading more isn’t helpful if you can't retain and apply your new knowledge. This guide offers a system to help you read more deeply and remember what you read for years to come.

Five years ago I realized that I remembered almost nothing about most books that I read. I was reading all kinds of non-fiction - pop-psychology, pop-economics, pop-sociology, you name it - and felt like quite the polymath auto-didact. But one day, after I had finished blathering at a friend about how much I had enjoyed Thinking, Fast and Slow, they asked for a quick summary of the book’s overall thesis. I thought for a while, mumbled something about System 1 and System 2 and how I had only really read...

In an interview seven days before leaving office, Mr. Obama talked about the role books have played during his presidency and throughout his life.