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A lot of what you [[thoughts/writing|write]] are diffused from what you read. I pretty much spend a lot of my waking hours [[antilibrary.base|reading]] books (when I’m not working ofc) that is intellectually stimulated and I find interesting. I also do perform [close reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_reading).

I’m not yet _sure_ how I read. But this is more/less a collection of how people I follow read. Inspired by [Zvi’s on writing](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-writing-1)

![[antilibrary.base#editors]]

> \[!note\] Note
>
> Andy Matuschak [recorded a video w/ Dwarkesh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFuu4pesKf0) that demonstrate his process of studying _hard problem_ (in this case quantum mechanics), which is a good case study of [close reading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_reading)

## why books don’t work

[Matuschak](https://andymatuschak.org/books/) argues that book lacks a functioning cognitive models so that it left the readers to perform all of these metacognitive tasks, i.e annotations, reflection, essays-writing.

He mentioned the model to be {{sidenotes[_transmissionism_]: according to this [article](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6189484), it is a teacher-centred teaching and learning model in which the teacher’s role is to design lessons aimed at predetermined goals and to present knowledge and skills in a predetermined order, and the students’ tasks are to **passively** a acquire teacher-specified knowledge and skills}}. verbatim:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fr" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Knowledge media face an awkward chasm between theories.<br><br>The old theory was naive transmissionism: "I&#39;ll convey this knowledge by telling you about it." That&#39;s effectively books&#39; learning model.<br><br>But we know that model&#39;s wrong: learning is an active process of assimilation.</p>&mdash; Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) <a href="https://x.com/andy_matuschak/status/1081382567100600321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">5 janvier 2019</a></blockquote>



I found that to [read more](https://borretti.me/article/how-to-read-more) requires somewhat of a concurrent model, where you will incrementally work on 5-10 books at a time. However, this approach is very much succumb to [cognitive overload](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load)

## how rtq read

_<https://internetprincess.substack.com/p/how-i-read>_

## how Henrik Karlsson read

_<https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/how-i-read>_