In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...
Writing as a thinking tool
In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...
The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing
Think better. Grow your audience. Accelerate your career.
How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding
Using spaced repetition to create understanding
You Have to Type It Out — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
For many kinds of learning, actually writing or typing out the exercises is an essential part of internalizing a mental model. You cannot skip it!
Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation
Reading augmentation systems increasingly help readers process text at scale. While these tools address real constraints of time and cognitive load, they often implicitly frame reading as...
How to gain more from reading by taking it all in more slowly | Psyche Guides
There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
if you've never written an essay for fun, you're making yourself dumber
Marginalia: a reading shelf for papers
afterword
Writing this handbook has been a process of not over-thinking it. In deciding to do it post-by-post, day-by-day, I practiced sharing as I went, posting to a ...
Tinkered Thinking
Daily, snackable writings to spur changes in thinking.Building a blueprint for a better brain by tinkering with the code.
When students stop reading long books, what do they lose? According to one professor: the ability to follow complex arguments, think independently and wrestle with difficult ideas. theconversation.com/college-professors-face-an-em…
