2022 - To Read

My ideas on how to find purpose in a meaningless life.

Have you ever read a ton of papers and still don’t have any idea what to write? I have. Improve your knowledge management system to stop procrastination and writer's block.

What do you do with your new ideas? The connections and sparks that pop to mind when you’re in the shower; in a presentation; on a bus.

Learn about Better Thinking. 10 outstanding articles and videos from around the web, hand-curated. Fit learning into busy days.

Linear thinking is a myth. Yet, somehow, the way we teach people to think at school is linear.

I work a lot. Between running a company, learning how to code, speaking at events, writing regularly, my days are filled with work. My friends sometimes comment that I work too much. But it doesn’t feel this way. I do work a lot, but not too much. I know, because I have experienced what it’s ... Read more

Glasp is a social web highlighter and annotation tool. You can collect your interest from the web, connect with like-minded people, and leave your digital legacy for future generations.

The true purpose, motivation and rewards behind searching, collecting, adding value and sharing great collections of information.

Train your brain to retain knowledge and insight better by understanding how you (actually) learn. Once you understand the keys to learning, everything changes—from the way you ask questions to the way you consume information.

Learn In Public #read5for5 https://t.co/RuoUhi2l8z— Tarik ESSAADI (@tarikveille) May 18, 2022

How we read is as important as what we read. Mortimer Adler guides us through 4 levels of reading: elementary, inspectional, analytical, and syntopical.

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Pleasure is addictive and animal; enjoyment is elective and human.

“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the…

It's #day1 of #read5for5 📚✨I read and learned from "How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught" by @farnamstreet!https://t.co/npZzmCYdktLet’s read good articles and connect with like-minded people through the challenge🤝— jack marinchek (@jackmarinchek) May 21, 2022

Day 4️⃣ of the #read5for5 challenge 📚 Let's learn together about reading/writing, learning, self-improvement, and/or productivity everyday ✨ 🧵 Here are today's 5 articles— Glasp (@_Glasp) May 19, 2022

"the biggest problem with the 10,000 hour rule, there is absolutely nothing in the study that suggests that anyone can become an expert in any given domain by putting in 10,000 hours of practice, even deliberate practice." — @anthilemoonvia @_Glasp pic.twitter.com/6JHzQGnYn5— Kazuki Nakayashiki (@kazuki_sf_) May 20, 2022

Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?

How might we empower learners with open-ended activities like writing and drawing online?

Social Reading and Reviewing

/1 I've been using @craftdocsapp for my personal knowledge/idea management (aka smart notes, Zettelkasten, evergreen notes, networked thought, second brain, etc).With native iOS/macOS apps, I get the same full-featured experience from my iPhone and my Mac.Here's my process.— Jesse J. Anderson • ADHD Creative (@jessejanderson) February 2, 2021

Woke up to a great paradoxical notion from @nsbarr: sometimes the main benefit of non-linear authoring (whiteboard, hypertext, Muse) is actually linear thought! These envs offer a “release valve” for tangential stuff so you can focus on your “main” idea. https://t.co/NLb8zALaqQ— Andy Matuschak (afk thru 05/30) (@andy_matuschak) September 25, 2020

Does anyone have good reading (scientific or not) about "recovery in knowledge work"? In sports there‘s a lot about recovery from exercise - what is that for writing or programming? How do you best recover after 4-6h of coding or writing?@andy_matuschak @s_r_constantin— C𐃏rtex Futura (@cortexfutura) May 2, 2021

12. Draft No. 4 by John McPhee. A book on the writing process, McPhee on McPhee, v deft. Happy @andy_matuschak turned me onto this, definitely the right book at the right time. He has this line about how writers are either overtly insecure or covertly insecure that kills me. pic.twitter.com/E6yeWAyVdH— Ava (@noampomsky) March 23, 2020

Using spaced repetition to create understanding

with just the right density of people + paper, we had 'essay trains' where people caterpillared one after another, reading together in a line - which meant you had to interact with other people's writing! (here's "the end of books" by coover, rec'd by @andy_matuschak) pic.twitter.com/pw0emrzDyy— Mishti (@m1shti) April 18, 2022

Just finished this great book by @MelMitchell1. IMHO, the first 100 pages can be printed as a separate book and used to popularise STEM among teenagers. I stumbled at a couple of chapters, but amazing book overall and it reads like a story.https://t.co/bAfDmAqFaN pic.twitter.com/5g2is6IJ47— Kurin ViTaly (@y0b1byte) April 30, 2022

Tandis is an amazing geometric form maker game from @bahrami_! This is totally how interacting with math feels like, with their forms extensionalized instead of keeping them hidden behind intensional algebraic notation. Check the game out here: https://t.co/Vui5VnYhep pic.twitter.com/VdNOWvdEpG— Prathyush (@prathyvsh) May 19, 2022

Understanding why the two are connected could be key in finding treatments – or even a cure – for tinnitus