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Adler and Van Doren suggest that the first and most important rule of skillful reading, active reading, is asking questions and trying to answer them. If you just dwell on that, what kinds of questions should I be asking and how should I go about asking them? How should I go about answering them when the author isn't present? And so on and so forth. [Unclear] They also say conversely, and this is meant as a criticism, an undemanding reader asks no questions and gets no answers.
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work
Dwarkesh Patel
Our smarter, richer betters (in Babel times, the king’s name was Nimrod) often preach the idea of a town square, a marketplace of ideas, a centralized hub of discourse and entertainment—and we listen. But when I go back and read Genesis, I hear God saying: “My children, I designed your brains to scale to 150 stable relationships. Anything beyond that is overclocking. You should all try Mastodon.”
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Paul Ford
Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-processing. But instead of making the photos better, they just make it more unnatural.
MKBHD Claims That Post-Processing Is Ruining iPhone Photos – And I Agree With That
Filipe Espósito
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