Questions that I ask myself when & after reading ๐ค๐
What did I like?
What did I dislike?
What do I disagree with?
What was surprising?
What ideas or statements changed my belief?
1/ Question for you: What question would you addโ
2/ What problems are discussed?
What questions does the book try to answer?
What questions does the book answer well?
What can I teach from answers?
What did I learn from the answers?
What questions does the book fail to answer?
3/ What categories does this book fit into?
What keywords or topics come up a lot?
What where the key takeaways?
What is the book telling me to do (directive)?
What books inspired this book?
What other book would be this book's antagonist?
4/ Why did I choose to read this book?
How did this book make me feel?
Why should someone read this book?
Which groups of people would benefit from this book?
Which five friends should I recommend this book to?
5/ What metaphors or images did I think of while reading?
What memories or past lessons came up while reading?
What general ideas does this book spark?
What external references can I reuse?
What are the top 5 quotes from this book?
What can I share from this book?
6/ What would be some hypothetical blog post titles from this book?
What is the book leading me to explore next?
What questions should I ask the author?
7/ How does this book expand on what I currently know?
Is this book worth re-reading?
Would the ideas in this book be relevant in the next 10 years?
What are the oldest ideas presented by this book?
What questions has the book left me with?
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Introducing the B.A.G.E.L ๐ฅฏ method for progressive meaning-making with highlights/flags for the books you read.
- B. Big Idea ๐ต
- A. Antagonism ๐ด
- G. General Noteworthy ๐ก
- E. External Reference ๐
- L. List of Notable Ideas ๐ข
Make your reading more fulfilling ๐๐งต
You give additional meaning to the pages you highlight when you use post-it flags or colored highlights beyond yellow.
Benefits:
- Quick
- Non-Destructive
- Context w/ Meaning
- Skimmable
- Intentional Reading
- Progressively summarize a book, by giving it a shape via colors.
I selected the colors & purpose for each through trial & error over many years.
The flagging method works best for non-fiction and you can slowly build your way up with the colors started for the first letter down.
Institutions peek into & manage the fate of your life & it gets harder to see how these powers operate & how decisions are made that affect us.
A few books shed light.
The incentive to understand economics is the desire to be free. ๐งต 1/46
2/ To see why things are the way they are, Follow the incentives.
3/ A Principal provides the resources, the Agent arranges the resources & acts on behalf of the principal. Incentive problems arise when a principal wants to delegate a task to the agent.
Each Area Page is an Action oriented Dashboard unique to the features of that area.
An Area is collection/category of activities, stages & events managed and cultivated over time.
My Nutrition area for example is where I have table, galleries & notes related to my nutritional health, like my meal plans, supplements, eating principles or dietary notes.
I associate the following other databases with Areas
Projects - A Collection of Tasks with a specific outcome and near-term deadline.
Problems - An Obstacle or Issue I want to overcome.
Experiments - A habit, tool, or other activity I'm trying out.
Topics - Related categories.
The Drama of the Gifted Child - Adaptation to what's missing.
My values, behavior & character have like a feedback loop or spiritual resonance molded to want I feel is missing in the world.
Filling in a void on a meta-level.
We all have a role to play. Free-will is fuzzy.
I have molded to what I believe the world needs:
1. We need more leaders. 2. We need to be more in-service of each other. 3. We need to remember that we are a part of nature. 4. We need to think of our actions beyond stage one. (Second-order effects)
5. We need to see how things are interconnected. (Systems-thinking) 6. We need to develop ourselves so that we can bear the burden of suffering. 7. We need to combine multiple skills unique to our physiology & psychology.