Thanks for the feedback! I don’t agree with your assessment, since the slideshow is about books, not learning in general, but I’ll take those thoughts into consideration.
I agree with your point wrt fragmentation, but my point is to actually assess the underlying mechanisms and address them more directly.
> Reading something you don't want to is going to stifle retention regardless of how you try and quantify it.
I agree and in fact, I point that very thing out in the slide about bad habits of holding onto a book that is not serviceable.
As a meta point many of the things I would talk about are lost in the medium of cutting text for slides, and I apologize that the examples (like the Illustration sections) must be on the responsibility of the reader. It makes more sense when delivered alongside talking!
Im working on a number of projects at once that are all under the umbrellas of: personal library science, booktech, and qualitative improvements to personal life [1]. Notable mentions:
- Life’s Articles, a personal Wikipedia
- Counting Worms, a very fast calorie tracker
- BookTalk, a audio based reading companion for capturing annotations
- Kindle Blocker, a Chrome Extension that earns you minutes on websites by reading with the Kindle app
I'm not OP, but heres how I connect Claude Code [1] to Linear MCP [2]. This allows CC to run a natural language type standup with your tasks when you type "standup". Other than that, I use Linear basically in the way they make it, using Projects to track long term initiatives and trying to honor my "in progress" list.
- Bespoke software for the group including: shared embedding graph of highlights and annotations, IRC chat with @ for members and books and authors, collective bookshelf
I’ll say this: between store, search, synthesize and share, store and synthesize are consistently the most difficult to nail down.
A society that wishes to succeed in creating an activated and knowledgeable populous should be interested in how to train people to notice better, and to create insightful follows.
In the words of David Deutsch (paraphrasing): knowledge consists of conjecture and error correction