I have been a heavy user of Readwise for several years now and finally got around to writing a Python script to pull in my reading notes and highlights from what I’m reading. You can see them below, updated daily.
In the very early days of blogging, I used to regularly write longish posts about books I read. Now, for better or worse, I’m reading more articles and fewer books and my posts about them tend to be much shorter.
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Read: It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity
The bigger challenge of Slow Productivity is that it requires systems to manage work that’s not yet assigned. If you’re a boss, and an important task pops to mind—“We need to update our Web site with…
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Read: Find the Life Task
For a start, a life task will be something you can accomplish “only by effort and with difficulty,” as Jung puts it – and specifically, I’d say, with that feeling of “good difficulty” that comes from…
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Read: Vision Pro, Unscrambled, Is “I Poison VR”
The fact is, a two-trillion-dollar company is asking you to shut yourself off from your family, your friends, and your dog in order fully inhabit an environment manipulated and fine-tuned to serve a growth-at-any-cost ethos. This…
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Read: Curation Is the Last Best Hope of Intelligent Discourse.
The role of human curators is not just to select and present content but to imbue the digital landscape with a sense of reliability and authenticity that only human insight can provide. In an age where…
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Read: The Thing That Is Silence
So, so great to get an update from The Convivial Society after a long break. All the forces at play within us and without seem to be centrifugal forces, pulling us apart. I remain interested in…
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Read: Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
Simple wisdom comes out on top, no matter who you are: The most sustainable product is the one you never bought in the first place. Whenever making a new purchase, try to picture where the item…
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Read: The LONG HAUL: To iPad or Not to iPad
Performance should be a sacred, screen-free place, at least in terms of what the performers are putting out to the audience (there’s no stopping the myriad of phones aimed at the stage by the audience, nor…
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Read: 6 thoughts on “Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting”
When switching costs are high, services can be changed in ways that you dislike without losing your business. The higher the switching costs, the more a company can abuse you, because it knows that as bad…
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Read: Conversation vs Publishing
I think ultimately we’ll be disappointed with federation for all the reasons we’re frustrated with earlier social web systems. People trying to get attention for their ideas, which often are abusive. Now the question is what…
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Read: If Not Vegan, or Vegetarian, How About Chickentarian?
Buying a whole chicken, cutting it into pieces and wrestling with the bones, finding ways to really get the most out of every part—that’s enough! It is the antidote to mindless consumption. And while thoughtfulness is…