Deep Reading - Information Synthesis Over Volume

Stop Trying To Read 50 Books A Year

I used to wear my reading list like a badge of honor. But I wasn't getting smarter, I was just getting tired.

The bottleneck was never the lack of information. It was my brain's inability to process it all.

Now I do the opposite:

I read a page → I put the book down.
I stare at the wall.
I dont turn the page untill it fits the big picture in my head.

Information without synthesis is just noise.

Pause more.

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.
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