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there's so much depth to reading that I missed in the first quarter of my life, where I just: - read for some amount of time, linearly in the current book terrible comprehension, forgot nearly everything. now, I: - read slowly, take margin notes - put down the material frequently to do secondary research and write mini essays connecting what I read to existing ideas I have - read multiple things at once based on energy levels/excitement - go back and re-read margin notes or whole chapters, finding new insights I missed before - re-discover relevant parts of the book/article via notes or Memex (great tool), and go back to re-read alongside another relevant book/article this is a far more deliberate, higher agency activity than simply linearly following the author's thought process by reading once and sequentially

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