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9 Best Articles in 2021
Farnam Street
How to Read a Book: The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer AdlerFarnam Street
5 min read · From 2018 · In how to read a book, Mortimer Adler teaches us the four levels of reading to become a more effective reader. Learning how to read is more than just picking up a book and starting to read.
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Francis Bacon once remarked, “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
The goal is not to achieve an overall understanding of any particular book, but rather to understand the subject and develop a deep fluency.
There are four main questions you need to ask of every book:  What is this book about? What is being said in detail and how? Is this book true in whole or in part? What of it?
Dan Shipper
Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at OnceDan Shipper
~13 min read · 2020-06-23 · How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time
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Reading shouldn’t be about checking titles off of a todo list, it should be an exploration of what fascinates you. 
when I’m reading a non-fiction book, I focus on locating and removing the most valuable pieces of information from it quickly as possible
My goal is to quickly locate valuable knowledge and use the information I acquire in the real world to solve problems.
Aeon+Psyche
How to know who’s trustworthyAeon+Psyche
7 min read · 2020-11-04 · Knotty problems call for sound advice. Use philosophy to find the intellectually dependable amid the frauds and egotists
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Do they demonstrate an appreciation of my unique perspective, needs and abilities? It’s important for those you depend on to fit their communications to who you are. If they’re too interested in themselves to pay attention to you, or if they take a distorted view of who you are, this can prevent them from sharing what it’s most important for you to know.
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How To Fix a Toilet And Other Things We Can't Do Without Searchhow-to-fix-a-toilet.com
7 min read · From 2017 · A visual essay on everything we forgot how to do — and how to ask: from fixing toilets to how to kiss.
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NPR
If You've Always Wanted To Write A Book, Here's HowNPR
8 min read · 2020-04-28 · Everyone has a book in them. Everyone also has a crummy inner voice telling them it's never going to happen. This episode will help shut down those distracting voices and get you started writing a…
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Lifehack
How To Create A Daily Schedule To Organize Your DayLifehack
7 min read · Feb 24th · If your goal is to be productive, start by adding structure to your life. Here’s how to create a daily schedule to organize your day for maximum success.
productivity
better living
The New York Times
How to Be HappyThe New York Times
~20 min read · From 2017 · Happiness isn’t something that just happens to you: Take these small steps to create a happier life.
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Lifehack
How To Motivate Yourself To Study When You're Too Busy With WorkLifehack
8 min read · May 12th · Are you too busy with work that you sometimes lose motivation to study? Here are some tips on how to build and maintain your motivation despite being busy.
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Quotes that inspire need to be easy to remember, connect with you on a personal level, and fire up your passion, enthusiasm, and goals in life.
How we are motivated really comes down to whether the motivation is coming from within us or outside us.
Take short five-minute breaks after each successful Pomodoro to stand up, stretch, and move your legs around. This increased blood flow will help keep you awake and get oxygen to your brain.
Farnam Street
How to Remember What You ReadFarnam Street
~15 min read · Aug 16th · The benefits of reading are negated if you forget remember what you read. This article discusses a tested system to increase retention. Learn how to use active reading to remember more from books.
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A lot of success in reading boils down to preparation. What you do before you read matters way more than you think.
Focus on some combination of books that: 1) stand the test of time; 2) pique your interest; or 3) challenge you.
The investment we make in reading should have a positive, lasting impact on our lives.
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The Guardian
The power of no: how to build strong, healthy boundariesThe Guardian
6 min read · Sep 2nd · When we find it difficult to say ‘no’ at work or at home, our responsibilities can quickly become overwhelming. For good mental health, focusing on our own needs and capabilities is crucial
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“Toughness is about having self-awareness to figure out where you are, and whether the path forward is the right one to take.
We need to be more selfish and speak up for our needs. In order for us to be well, we need to change the idea that speaking up makes us angry or unresilient.
“Toughness is about having self-awareness to figure out where you are, and whether the path forward is the right one to take.
WIRED UK
How to use science to focus at workWIRED UK
4 min read · Sep 8th · Neuroscience can help you beat the sea of distractions whether you’re headed back to the office or still working from home
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Quit kidding yourself that you can multitask
The idea behind load theory is that there is a limit to how much your mind can deal with. There’s a constant competition between the task you’re trying to get on with and the distractions in the background.
the brain rapidly switches between two cognitive tasks rather than dealing with them at the same time
Content Marketing Institute
Outsourcing Content Creators: The Complete How-To GuideContent Marketing Institute
10 min read · Aug 24th · Advice to help you identify, vet, and onboard the right outsourced creators to your content marketing team – Content Marketing Institute
marketing
content marketing
mux.com
You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderationmux.com
6 min read · Sep 28th · Learn how to build an automated content moderation workflow with Mux Video and Hive.ai (including an open source example)
programming
product design
product management
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It’s the dirty little product secret that no one talks about.
Oh yeah, it’s great. We had to spend the majority of last week trying to come up with clever ways to block users from abusing our platform by uploading NSFW content.
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WIRED UK
How to hack your brain to remember almost anythingWIRED UK
4 min read · 2020-07-08 · Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis and psychological scientist Julia Shaw explain how to use the memory palace technique to boost your memory skills
brain
Lilach Bullock
How to promote a blog post: the ultimate guideLilach Bullock
From 2017 · So, you’ve written an awesome blog post that provides lots of value…now what? How do you get it in front of the right eyes, and as many pairs of eyes as possible? Promoting your blog posts the right way is just as important as writing amazing content. After all, if no one sees your content, it’s all for nothing. In this latest ultimate guide, I want to show you how to promote a blog post so that you generate traffic. You’ll be able to find all kinds of free and paid promotional strategies and I’
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content marketing
Mark Manson
How to Get Motivated and Take ActionMark Manson
7 min read · 2020-09-11 · Contents Motivation and Taking Action The Do Something Principle Tips to Staying Motivated How to Use Rituals Cutting Out Distractions Digging Deeper More Articles on Motivation Action and Motivation…
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Action isn’t just the effect of motivation, but also the cause of it.
The conclusion is that if you lack the motivation to make an important change in your life, then do something, anything really, and then harness the reaction to that action as a way to begin motivating yourself.
Action isn’t just the effect of motivation, but also the cause of it.
Buffer
Content Curation: How to Discover and Share the Very ContentBuffer
20+ min read · From 2016 · It's all here! This ultimate guide to content curation has tips on where to find great content, how to read it fast, and automation flows for social sharing
content marketing
reading
curation
Farnam Street
How to Read a BookFarnam Street
5 min read · From 2015 · Learn how to read a book with the four levels of reading and starting separate signal from noise and connecting ideas.
reading
norvig.com
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Yearsnorvig.com
~17 min read · From 2013 · Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. The Amazon…
programming
how to
Forge
How to Write AnythingForge
4 min read · 2020-05-22 · Rules you can use to write anything you want to write — from a book to a tweet
writing
NPR
How To Control (And Even Use) Your Anger — With MeditationNPR
3 min read · Jun 11th · Anger can be a powerful teacher — if we know how to use it. In this episode, Lama Rod Owens, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism, explains how he learned to love his anger, and gives listeners a six-step…
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Anger is a complicated emotion that many of us try to suppress rather than examine — a desire often reinforced by societal narratives that dictate who is allowed to hold and process the sentiment.
Sam Altman
How to Start a StartupSam Altman
From 2018 · By Sam Altman Follow @sama Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts. How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford…
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