In: Workplace Skills

Reading

Many of the world's most successful entrepreneurs – including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett – attribute their success to reading at least one hour each day. Yet as the internet increasingly encroaches on everyday life, human attention span is waning and reading is becoming a lost art. Schedule some reading time into your day to draw novel connections, learn new information and boost your skills.

Summaries

7 Article

How to Tell If What You're Reading Was Written By AI

Don't believe everything you read (was written by a human).
Jake Peterson
Lifehacker, 2024
8 Book

How to Read a Financial Report

Wringing Vital Signs out of the Numbers
John A. Tracy
Wiley, 2004
9 Book

Reader, Come Home

The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne Wolf
Harper, 2018
9 Video
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss, 2017
8 Book

How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Touchstone, 1972
8 Podcast

Digital Media Literacy

Empathizing with the Internet
Mohit Rajhans and Kara Brisson-Boivin
The Walrus, 2022
Book

Creating Room to Read

A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
John Wood
Plume, 2014
7 Article

5-Hour Rule

If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible
Michael Simmons
Medium, 2017
7 Video
Michael Simmons
The Art of Improvement, 2018
8 Book

The Good Book of Human Nature

An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible
Carel van Schaik and Kai Michel
Basic Books, 2016
8 Book

Reading the Comments

Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
MIT Press, 2015

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