Tag: reading
All the articles with the tag "reading".
Let your unread books pile up
My unread pile grows faster than I can read it, and after three passes through one book I stopped treating a shelf of finished books as knowledge I own.
I got picked as a Millie's Library Book Master
What Millie's Library asks of a Book Master, what the weekly job involves, and the perks that come with the badge.
Speed reading that actually works, checked against the research
Three standard speed reading tricks that the research kills, three that survive it, and how to build the reading muscle underneath them.
The reading method that never fails
The four-step method in full: record, summarize, connect, repeat, and why counting the books you finished is the wrong scoreboard.
What if you read ten times faster?
Anne Jones read the last Harry Potter in 47 minutes, but the speed worth training is how fast you can put a book to use.
Three ways to avoid a bad book
The three filters I put a book through before I trust it: whether the author is writing inside their own expertise, whether the claims have evidence, and whether the writing is clear.
The way of reading only good writers know, part 2
A line by line read of the apology Lee Jae-yong gave during the MERS outbreak, showing how its order does the work: emotion first, reason second, sympathy for the doctors last.
The way of reading only good writers know, part 1
Reading a lot doesn't make you write better, because you read for content. The fix is to read for structure: underline the lines that do something to you, then work out why.