Book Reading and Productivity
Posted on January 27th, 2006
Paul Graham's recent essay How to Do What You Love isn't about the importance of reading books per se, but it does offer this interesting idea:
Except for some books in math and the hard sciences, there's no test of how well you've read a book, and that's why merely reading books doesn't quite feel like work. You have to do something with what you've read to feel productive.