π£ New essay distilling one strand of some ongoing workβ¨
I argue that books lack a functioning model of how people learnβinstead, they're (accidentally, invisibly) built around a model that's plainly false. Plus some early models for what to do about it.
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Curious if you have thoughts on Mortimer Adler's "How to Read A Book", seems to touch on a lot of same problems, suggests reader strategies that do not require a new medium.
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Sure! It's been very influential for me. In that context, one framing:
HtRaB has outstanding advice for effective reading. Is it followed commonly? Does it need to be so hard to carry out that advice? Is it possible to make a "book" for which analytical reading is automatic?
One option -- at the end of a chapter (or section) prompt the user to write out in their own words the key questions, arguments, and terms the author introduced.
Problem you described is that recognition is easier than recall. Re-reading/highlighting gives illusion of fluency
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I've long wished Audible had this feature, prompt me to take a few voice notes at some interval I set.
Use something like Otter.ai for transcription so I can review my own takeaways easier
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