What’s the best way to consume information?
Last updated 2024 May 19 | More of my big questions
Sub-questions
- What’s worth reading or learning about?
- How much should I guide my own reading versus pay attention to what others are talking about?
- How should I decide what to read next?
- How can I ensure I hear diverse viewpoints, especially from queer folks and people of color?
- How can I engage with and learn from what I read and watch?
Bookshelf
Webinar
Articles
Articles or longer responses I’ve written.
- Taste requires intentional attention
- My drift away from the sci-fi genre
- Gulping information
- How we feel about what we consume
- The pros and cons of sponginess
- Reaching the edges ⭐
- What’s on my bookshelf right now: October 2023
- My Reading Philosophy in 17 Guidelines ⭐
- Using AI for facts is a cue to unsubscribe
- How to read more books
- The point of reading
- Why I track my reading ⭐
- How has reading romance changed your reading approach?
- Reclaiming intentionality in browsing and blogging
- Internet era life skills
- Diversifying my blogroll
Notes
Bookmarks and quotes from articles I’ve read.
Reading
- Appreciating books I haven’t read yet
- News reading process
- Reading well
- Reading Intentions
- Shapes of Reading
- Lean forward and lean back reading
What to read (and what not to)
- How we decide what information matters
- Honest book criteria
- Reserving mental space for myself
- Trusted Information Sources
- The Second Price
- Article pairing: stop reading the news
- Critical Ignoring
The media environment
- Perspectives on time, change and longevity
- In algorithm we trust
- Algorithmic recommendations create “curiosity ruts”
- Spotting misinformation
- Archives of the digital age
Philosophy
- Just buy the book
- Demanding value from our time
- The value of deep learning
- Browsing is Learning
- Books Unread
Approach
- Carry a book instead of your phone
- Article pairing: creative intake
- No streaming
- Use different tools for creation and consumption
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Spring is here — it was a big wildlife week in the neighborhood! Heard coyotes howling in the greenbelt and the frogs started their evening chorus, saw a doe in the backyard and a hummingbird out front, and spotted the first bees cruising. But, allergies also hit me hard 🤧
I downloaded my Google Takeout data. I’d forgotten they own Blogger and was delighted to discover they had atom feeds for all of my old college blogs! No photos, but still funny to see what I wrote about twenty years ago. I’ve marked the date of my very first post on my calendar so I can celebrate the anniversary come September 😁🥂
I’ve been working on keeping fewer tabs open on my phone. I was doing pretty well till yesterday but left six tabs open overnight 😂
Stuff I Did:
About eight hours of consulting work
Developed a new revision plan for my novel
Started exploring webfonts for my consulting website
Went to Homebrew Website Club
Watched a webinar about home design
Walked with a friend twice
Baked scones
One appointment
Reading:
Read Alien Mercenary’s Destiny by Mina Carter and re-read The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
Started reading Effortless by Greg McKeown
DNF’d Breath of Life by Jocelynn Drake and Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Added five books to my TBR
Words I looked up / concepts I learned:
cognate
caliginous
No free lunch theorem
New newsletter I’m trying out:
Ann Friedman’s newsletter
Pretty things I saw:
Ryan Swierczek of Swierczek Design Co — I like the color palettes, especially the photo tints, and the photo collages on their posters
Roland Kraemer on ThatBloom.com — lots of neat abstract natural photo series, and I thought the inverted cursor overlay was cool looking (although the size changing was a little confusing)
Parag Sahasrabudhe on parag.micro.blog — a series of colorful doors in Puerto Rico
Website Changes:
New organizing section!
I created a new section called “Big Questions” which organizes a lot of my notes and reading under broad questions that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the past couple years:
Balanced Lifestyle
Effective Creative Processes
Writing Fiction – this one hasn’t been populated yet
Thinking Better
Information Diet
Future of the Internet
Resisting Fascism
Building Community
I got some good ideas at Homebrew Website Club that I’ve only started implementing on the ‘balanced lifestyle’ page, so these still have some work to do. I also need to figure out what system I’m going to follow to update them since it’s all manual 😉
New page
I also finally published a page collecting “neat websites” as an addition to my pages for interesting people and cool artists and blogroll. I’d been sitting on it, feeling like it needed more content before I could post it, but whatev, may as well post now and can keep adding 🤷♀️
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