One way to dream up post-book media to make reading more effective and meaningful is to systematize "expert" practices (e.g. How to Read a Book), so more people can do them, more reliably and more cheaply. But… the most erudite people I know don't actually do those things!
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There's a funny response curve: folks who are super-diligent about note-taking practices or building simulations seem to generally end up with less insight than their somewhat-less-diligent neighbors. Maybe it's a explore/exploit thing? Or maybe just a wonk/gestalt thing?
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The best theory I have is something like: it takes so much effort to do these "expert" reading practices now that such readers burn their willpower and mental energy on running those processes, rather than on the ideas themselves. But I don't know! Gives me pause!
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Replying to @andy_matuschak
I’m a turtle, so I tend to read by interrogating a book based on a question I have for it, and have had for most of my life. This gives me a very different context than most readers and makes especially fox/rabbit note-taking approaches a no-go.
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Fox/rabbit note-taking approaches?!
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