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How I Choose What To Read - David Perell

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“Reading books is the real-life version of collecting mushrooms in Super Mario.” — Some random guy on Twitter Reading is a cheat code. Improving what you consume is the fastest way to accelerate your pace of progress.  Time is scarce, so you can’t read everything. You have to make tradeoffs. As you choose what to read,

“Reading books is the real-life version of collecting mushrooms in Super Mario.” — Some random guy on Twitter Reading is a cheat code. Improving what you consume is the fastest way to accelerate your pace of progress. Time is scarce, so you can’t read everything. You have to make tradeoffs. As you choose what to read, you walk a balance between thinking differently and knowing more than others. Read an enormous amount of books. More than you think you need to, not the ones that everyone else is reading, and ideally covering a wide range of topics. Informational edge is found in obscure,

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