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  1. driverlesscrocodile.com

    This is a great riff on how reading works and on the network effects of reading. Links below. Tyler says: … I go through five or ten books a day. And which parts of them I've read you can debate - maybe it washes out to be two or three books a day. Some good… Read More »Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and reading widely
  2. econtalk.org

    Tyler Cowen: Well, let me give you an example. I brought the books I'm reading now. So, here's a book: It's called Land, Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question, by Philip Bull. He goes through Irish land debates in the 19th century. I read about two thirds of this book. It's from the library.
  3. marginalrevolution.com

    I am unfamiliar with speed reading techniques, so I cannot evaluate them. The best way to read quickly is to read lots. And lots. And to have started a long time ago. Then maybe you know what is coming in the current book. Reading quickly is often, in a margin-relevant way, close to not reading much at all.
  4. gratefulamericanfoundation.org

    Read in clusters. This naturally follows on from the point above. If you arrange your reading around questions or areas of exploration, you'll end up reading multiple books about the same topic. That allows you to "do a kind of cross-sectional mental econometrics and see which pieces start fitting together," says Cowen. Read fiction.
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  6. Economists Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution blog) and Russ Roberts (EconTalk podcast) discuss their reading habits. Cowen is the kind of person who would read in German all seven volumes of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". I love their ideas, their "zealotry" about reading difficult books, and their defence of the classics. Available in:
  7. Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely. ... from Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely by Stuart Patience. Tanuj added 2y ago. And my philosophy of reading is that no-one reads quickly. So someone once asked me "How long did it take you to read that book?" And I said, "Fifty-seven years."
  8. news.ycombinator.com

    The book How to Read a Book (by Mortimer Adler) goes into some detail about the levels of reading (skimming, full reading, analytical, and syntopical) and attention that should be paid to books, and describes good technique for quickly skimming a book to determine what it says, how well it makes its point, and whether more careful reading is ...
  9. driverlesscrocodile.com

    Highlights from Cowen and Roberts' recent conversation on Econtalk. On reading for love Cowen: …don't read stuff you don't love reading. That's the simplest point that I would stress above all else. Maybe you have to read it for your job, but the point of reading is that you love what you're reading. If not,… Read More »Love and Clusters: (more from) Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts ...
  10. One of the very best ways to read is to have your own podcasy. So the way you read well is just by reading a lot, and by reading a lot your whole life. And then when you go to read actual books you're like "I know that, I know that, I know that," and you keep on going, and you read much more quickly. And that's really the way to read a lot.
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