Pawel Sysiak
Pawel Sysiak
Honesty about reading

Honesty about reading

Creator
Holden Karnofsky
URL
https://www.cold-takes.com/honesty-about-reading/
Date
May 13, 2022 1:30 AM
Status
Done

Paradox: A lot of people claims to read a lot of books while not remembering anything.

New proposed norms around reading:

  • Default to skim, read critiques or summaries of the books.
  • Read carefully parts that are relevant to you.
  • It’s okay to write about the idea from the book even if you didn’t read it fully but disclose which part you did and didn’t read.
  • Authors should make this easy by writing comprehensive summaries, TLDRs, divide text in easy to access sections and organized table of contents.
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