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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 gain more from your reading

There’s more to words than meets the eye. Deepen your appreciation of literature through the art of slow, attentive reading
Robert DiYanni
Psyche, 2024
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
8 Book

How to Read a Book

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

Reader, Come Home

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