reading
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How to Mark a Book to Forge Deep Insight
Reading without a pen in your hand is forgetting in slow motion — the mark is not a highlight, it is your half of the conversation.
The Science of Studying: Encoding
The feeling of learning and actual learning are different variables — and the most popular study methods are popular precisely because they optimize the first.
Ideas
5 notesMark where the argument turns, not where it arrives — conclusions are findable by flipping, inferences are invisible without your help.#annotate-the-hinge
✦Expert marginalia is an argument with the author — agreement marks are the signature of naive reading.#argue-with-the-author
✦Notes that are never extracted die in the container that holds them, and the input loop feels like success the whole time.#extraction-or-it-dies
✦Producing your own sentence about an idea encodes durably; recognising someone else’s does almost nothing.#generation-over-recognition
✦The instrument’s presence changes posture from consumer to participant before a single mark is made.#pen-changes-reading