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Five Things I Learned From Five Years of Blogging

 

26209089123_907f2db85aI started this blog, under a different name, in October 2011. Since then, a lot has changed! Here are five most important things I learned while running this blog.

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Now That Speed Reading Is Broken, Here Are Three Ways to Read Instead

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Seven years ago, I was convinced that my eyes were becoming superhuman. The pencil told my eyes where to focus, like a strict director’s baton. The mind made sure that no words were actually uttered – focusing instead on the text, and on moving my eyes in a frog-like fashion from one place on the text to another. Page after page. It felt good. It felt like progress. Apparently, it wasn’t worth all that much. Now that the sound of the Great Speed Reading Debunk echoes across the internetz, what can you do instead? Try these with me.