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I tend to group by:
Skills I need to Learn (motivation/obstacle)
Skills I want to Learn (motivation/curiosity)
Skills that should be prioritized
Skill-dependent Skills
Time-dependent Skills
People-dependent skills
Resource-dependent skills
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?
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.