We read to discern author’s intent FASTER.

Okay, we mostly read as a break from the work parts of this project, like when we are writing/debugging code to build MLops pipelines or analyzing data … but, it’s not strictly for relaxation. We try to speedread with serious, critical intention.

By reading with intention we mean that we are consciously trying read a lot better, in order to generally read a lot faster while understanding more. Reading FAST really is kind of a big deal … if nothing else, it helps weed out the teevee watchers and passive consumers of content, who just can’t keep up with a conversation.

Reading Lists

Our aim with this listing is to never have to think about our next list of items to read/annotate … we want to have roughly 125 good workout ideas in the hopper, to have 25 that we work on at least once a month, to have five that we touch once a week and to have ONE main one that we are focusing on getting right.

1) Newsreader, like Newsblur or others, set up to read RSS feeds from pre-print archives

2) Classics and more importantly commentary on the classics

3) Old school peer-reviewed scientific journals, usually this is limited to abstracts.

4) Poetry … to put the brain in a the blender and juice it.

5) Martial arts, self-defense … but only if we also roll on the mats

6) Sculpture, particularly landsculpting or messing up the lawn

7) Ancient writings on prayer, lojong, meditation … to think like a 5000-year old human.

8) Art, artists, art history … like poetry except visual … and gets us in the mood to lop an ear off.

9) Architecture, particularly parks and green spaces … or grain elevators

10) Ecosystems, nature, pond scum

11) Physics

12) Mathematics

13) Chemistry

14) Meta Wikipedia, Wikipedians and edit wars and other things from general wikiculture

15) Philosophy

16) Music, Music AI, and especially music metadata

17) Podcastering, DAWs, DAW code and collaborative audio engineering

18) Yeah, we know … we’re still working on the rest of this list

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Exploratory / Wild Brainstorm Lists … which might become reading lists