Szymon Kaliski

Syntopic Reading

• act of reading multiple books at once on the same (or related) topic(s)
• helps with seeing multiple takes on the same ideas, which helps with thinking for yourself (metacognition)
• understanding requires effort, and forcing yourself to confront different viewpoints, seem to make it more natural to put in that effort

The one thing I do try to follow is to go on streaks of reading a lot of books on a particular topic around the same time. Doing this is useful because it means I don't have to just trust one author's perspective on a particular topic - and helps me connect a lot of facts together, so I can understand things better. 

— https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-learning-machine ↗

Backlinks

1. 2022-01-03A Dog, Short Ramble on "Programming", MIDI→CV, and a Rabbit-Holing Web Browser¹
2. 2020-12-13Learning¹