Books

Don’t Eat with the people U won’t starve with 💀🖤

1) pick better books
2) start with audiobooks or kindle app on phone
3) artificially commit to an hour per day at first

To unpack:

Reading is only gonna sustainably edge out scrolling time if it offers a good effort-to-dopamine bargain. So pick a book that doesn’t suck, and consume it in a convenient mode. Some good choices in the linked cast. Picking good books is very hard and very personal. Obviously don’t pick by covers, but you really shouldn’t pick based on blurbs or descriptions either. Find a reader you like and read from their list.

Scrolling gives hit after hit with almost no spin up time, but it doesn’t compound. Reading books requires a lot more spin up time, but the pleasures compound. So use the initial artificial commitment to get a sense of the promised land.

If it’s working for you, you’ll be able to give up points 2 and 3 in a few months. If not, keep trying, but there’s a good chance you’ll lose to the dopamine of scrolling.

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My response to the question “how do I shift some scrolling time to book time?”

Initial recommendations for better books in the recasted cast 😊