Do I actually need to write?
How much of what I write is writing new ideas versus a rehash of old ideas?
But the latter is writing, isn’t it? When I take separate ideas and weave them together in a new way. Standing on the shoulders of giants so I can look further beyond.
For example some separate ideas I could weave together:
- Tantra and Bitcoin
- Natural Vision Improvement and the idea of ‘instant enlightenment’
I guess I’m not exactly sure where the line between curating and writing actually is. Curating is more a collecting and then sharing as it is – without trying to fuse it together with a separate idea.
The Habit of Reading
I realise though that more important than curating or writing, Is reading.
The more I read, the greater the pool with which I have for “memes to mate and reproduce”.
Deliberate reading was the most important skill I started to cultivate when I was 16. Buying non-fiction books with government money was the best investment I ever made.
I’ve lost it a little since. It picked up during my six month retreat, but it’s since waned again.
I want to apply deep work principles to reading.
Reading is a skill. And it’s an incredibly valuable one. So few people have actually cultivated reading as a skill. Yet the ones who have, have made outsized returns from their investment.
- Warren Buffett.
- Charlie Munger.
- Craig Wright.
- Dalai Lama.
Reading. Studying. Quizzes. Memorising. Learning. Connecting. Sharing. Writing. Debating.
But it all starts with reading.
There are also audiobooks nowadays. I can usually speed listen at 2x, depending on the topic. I can binge speed listen easily. Though I ought to make flash cards or do quizzes about what I’m listening so it doesn’t immediately get forgotten.
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