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Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

How to Read a Book on a First Pass

The first thing a para academic tries to answer is like, is this going to help me? Do I find myself wanting to read more? Uh, and the answer is often no. And so in that case, you know, I'll kind of scratch a few notes about, uh, my impressions of, of the book, into a note about the book...and then move on. If it does seem helpful, then, um, I will usually sit down for, for a longer pass at this point. Usually there's an amount of space repetition question extraction that's happening just as I'm reading.

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