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How I live: Reading books so they last – 💻🤝🌀

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This post is part of a larger attempt to share my personal “systems” that help me organize my life. I’m no expert, but by sharing my system, I hope to get feedback and inspire others to share as well. “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”— Bertrand Russell For the last five years, I was allergic to books (unless I could boast about them). I thought fiction books purely for fun, and non-fiction books were always longer and less to-the-point than an online article. I scoffed at book-readers, listening to my 30 minute informational podcasts — skimming Wikipedia was way faster than spending two weeks on a book! After retrying books recently, I’ve realized that podcasts and articles are baby carrots to the five-course-meal that a book provides. Books are effective at deep dives on specific topics of interest, as well as testing out philosophical hypotheses (e.g. “What would a world look like where …”). For instance, Brave

This post is part of a larger attempt to share my personal “systems” that help me organize my life. I’m no expert, but by sharing my system, I hope to get feedback and inspire others to share as well. Why should I care about this anyway? “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”— Bertrand Russell For the last five years, I was allergic to books (unless I could boast about them). I thought fiction books purely for fun, and non-fiction books were always longer and less to-the-point than an online article. I scoffed at…

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