Deep Reading Pt. 1: The Reading System Nobody Taught You At School
A series on the most effective reading framework of the last 100 years
1-2-Read
Practical ideas and journal prompts to supercharge your reading. 57 posts
Literature is the creation of human emotions
The hidden purpose of reading people miss
Plain English Pt. 3: The Secret Behind Every Sentence You've Never Forgotten
5 rhetorical devices that turn ordinary writing into quotable lines
A 300-Year-Old Journaling Method That Still Works
Why your journaling habit feels stale, and how an 18th-century biographer can fix it
Plain English Pt. 2: The Secret to Finding Your Writing Style
8 principles that'll make your writing impossible to ignore
Plain English Pt. 1: How To Write A Clean Sentence
A grammar guide for people who hate grammar.
Having Too Many Interests Is A Superpower, Here's How To Channel It
5 Principles For People Who Refuse To Have One Calling
How to pursue every interest without burning out
Also, why is time the worst measure of productivity
The Anatomy of a Close-Minded Reader
And protocols for how to stop being one
Why We Judge Books We've Never Read
Paranoid Reading and how it's holding you back
The lost art of contemplative reading (and how to practice it)
Protocols for retraining your contemplative attention
You didn't misread it, you just hadn't lived enough
Why reading fiction gets better with age