Reading

Introduction

Reading is my vice. Not enough time, too many books :)
My Lindy list is here.
All the rest, are below the handy dandy legend in the next para.
Treat them all as not safe for kids, until you have reviewed or read the books yourself.

Most books are fiction and unmarked
¶ for Lindy books
* for the ones I love
† for most non fiction
‡ for tech / work / study / reference stuff
# for alternate media (like audio or video)
numbers are footnotes
Some book titles might be repeated (in addition to the annual Lindy reads :)
After all, we are what we re-read :)

Lindy Books

via Ricardo Siri Yea, Lindy. From the term popularised in Taleb’s Antifragile. That is how most of the folks I learn from, read. Shane Parrish uses it as a guide to choose a book. As do the readers of his blog at Farnam Street. Vishal Khandelwal writes about it on his awesome blog. And also uses it as a guide to reading for investors. ...

Longform

Collections of posts around a theme or just long posts that needed a separate home

Observations as I Learn to Read, 2

Avoid long slogs

How to Read a Book: 005, On Reading Speed

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast

Joseph Conrad Forsees Aaron Swartz and the AI Bandits

via PRH NZ Been listening to Joseph Conrad’s, Heart of Darkness in the little cracks of time in the day1 and as always being led to the sad and inevitable conclusion that we always fail to learn from what came before. It was as unreal as everything else—as the philanthropic pretence of the whole concern, as their talk, as their government, as their show of work. The only real feeling was a desire to get appointed to a trading-post where ivory was to be had, so that they could earn percentages. They intrigued and slandered and hated each other only on that account—but as to effectually lifting a little finger—oh, no. ...

Observations as I Learn to Read, 1

Some things that struck me, about how I struggle with my reading.

Introduction#

Introduction