Prepared for next years reading before I finished this year's target, which I just crossed ๐Ÿ

The turbulence of this year had crushed my focus & my procrastination levels are at an all-time high.

Still, we default to our level of training & planning.

I've already purchased 2021's books and organized the sequencing that would be ideal to read based on length, category and seasonality.
I also like to know which genres are overweighted so that I can balance out my reading.

I added in more fiction, and might decrease business and increase design.
It saves soo much energy when you don't have to figure out what you need to read next.
Still I have flexibility throughout the system.

I've only pre-selected 40-60% of the total books I'll read, so I have room for other interesting books that come up.
Sharing the list also allows others to see what problems & interests I'm thinking about as well as validate or dispute some of my book selections.
I hit my target baseline of 45 books despite missing 4 months of reading because I had planned 40% of my reads for 2020 in 2019.

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23 Dec
Journaling is the practice that cultivates the skill of introspection, awareness, and intuition.

It's also the cheapest form of therapy closest to working out.

โœ๏ธ Here are different types of journals you can utilize.
1/ Empathy Journal: Writing the story of other people, imagining their experience and viewpoint.

Integrating this kind of journal helped me move away from "I" and "Me" and closer to "You" and "We" or a specific person.

Training me to mirror the emotions of others as a skill.
2/ Day Journal: Writing about your experiences of the day.

The most common type of journal and a great way to minimize false memories from long gaps of time.

Also helps to process events on the day they occurred rather than months later.
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21 Dec
An exercise to read more & better quality books is to select books you want to read the year prior.

I go through recommendations, problems, passions, & general interests to select impactful & moving books.

Here are 30 books ๐Ÿ“š I've researched & hope to read in 2021.
Psycho-Cybernetics

An exploration of mindset, success & identity.

I want to read this to work on altering negative thought patterns I've compounded over time and want to make happiness more of a habit.

goodreads.com/book/show/2881โ€ฆ Image
The Red Book

A psychological and subconscious self-experimentation by one of the greatest minds in psychology.

Soul Exploration.

goodreads.com/book/show/6454โ€ฆ Image
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4 Dec
Working on a generalized learning/skill tracking, planning & development framework that's maintainable within PKM tools.

Maps across the following:
Skills
Knowledge
Information
Habit
Mindset

What are some examples of how you think about organizing your learning/skills?
I'm exploring the Taxonomy around these areas. It is very graph-oriented but will probably start at the table design level.

i.e for Programmers

Computer Science > SWE > Front-End > Javascript > React > UI Component Design

Computer Science > SWE > Back-End > Javascript > Node
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
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25 Nov
Questions that I ask myself when & after reading ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ“š

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?
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16 Nov
Introducing the B.A.G.E.L ๐Ÿฅฏ method for progressive meaning-making with highlights/flags for the books you read.

- B. Big Idea ๐Ÿ”ต
- A. Antagonism ๐Ÿ”ด
- G. General Noteworthy ๐ŸŸก
- E. External Reference ๐ŸŸ 
- L. List of Notable Ideas ๐ŸŸข

Make your reading more fulfilling ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿงต
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.

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2 Nov
Economics & Freedom are inseparable.

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. ๐Ÿงต 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.
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