Thread by @itsandrewgao

all my friends who read a lot when young are successful now

i think reading is probably the more important thing you can do in elementary school

if ur brain is like an LLM, you should maximize the # of tokens it sees while training

i read so much in elementary school that writing is very easy for me. i liken it to next token prediction.

SAT/ACT grammar came very easy for me, i just went off of what sounded right. idioms as well, even though my family isn't native english speaker. but id read all them

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Also, having a lot of base knowledge made things like AP World History and English easy for me.

Some of my favorite series growing up in somewhat chronological order:

berenstAin bears (not berenstein apparently)
A to Z mysteries
39 Clues
Goosebumps
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew
Babysitters Club
Boxcar Children
Percy Jackson
Harry Potter
Narnia
Hunger Games
Warrior Cats

does anyone else remember stuffing an open book under their desk and subtly looking at it during class?

I can crank out about 3 pages of writing in an hour which is VERY useful for college length-based assignments. i attribute this to having read a lot and being fast at churning out correct sentences. this is r/imverysmart but me and many of my friends who read dont rly need to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Quality of book also matters. It turned out that most of the books in my home were old British books or classics like Jules Vernes.

Kinda messed with my spelling for a while and I thought clomb was a word.