Adjacent: Reading Skills · Adjacent
Building a Reading List
A system for choosing what to read: start from questions, mix classics and recent work, use Lindy and citation trails, set a realistic pace, and keep an anti-list.
Step 1 of 4 · Overview20 min read ·
Key idea
Prereqs: Speed vs depth reading. Next: Any Book Notes lesson. Sources: Mortimer Adler, *How to Read a Book* (1972), appendix list; Taleb on the Lindy effect, *Antifragile* (2012); Tyler Cowen's 'read widely, abandon freely' habit.Next: 1. Start with questions