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Ep 39: Maria Popova on Writing, Work Arounds, and Building BrainPickings.org

The Tim Ferriss Show

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What I'm Doing With Analogue Books

On the very last page of a huge book, which is blank, usually wright the end cover, i create an alternate index so i basically list out topics and ideas that seem to be important and recurring in that volume. And then next to each of them, i start listing out the page numbers where they occur. On those pages, i have obviously highlighted the respective passage, and i have a little sot of sticky tab on the side so i can find it. But it's basically er an index based not on key words, which is what a standard book index is based on, but based on key ideas. I use that then to sort of synthesize what those ideas are once

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