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I finally measured how fast I actually read
The number I'd always assumed for my own reading speed turned out to be off by a wide margin.
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A year I mostly didn’t write here
The gap on the calendar below has an explanation, of a kind, and it isn't a dramatic one.
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The middle of any piece of writing is supposed to feel like failure
A short note on the specific despair of the unfinished middle, and why it is not, in fact, useful evidence of anything.
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A page of quotations I keep coming back to, without a theme
No organizing theme, on purpose — just the passages that stayed, copied out roughly as Locke would have wanted.
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I have tried every note-taking system and none of them stuck
A partial, embarrassing inventory of the systems I've adopted and abandoned, and what finally worked instead.
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Three ways of marking up the same paragraph
Underline, marginal note, and dog-ear each record a different kind of reaction — and I keep forgetting that.