For those who feel inclined to reply via email: what was the best book you read this year? Any genre.
Blog: #reading
Things I’ve found helpful when reading hard/old books:
- Slow down
- Speed up
- Read out loud (or subvocalize)
- Make the font larger (or zoom in, or move the book closer)
Links #28
- Tiantian Xu’s 100 days of 3D design — great work, and her other 100-day projects are great, too
- Chris Granger demoing a natural language programming environment — intriguing; color me a bit skeptical (mainly because of the ambiguities of human language), but I hope it works out
- Frode Hegland’s free book The Future of Text — essays from loads of thinkers about text and reading, including Alan Kay
- NVIDIA’s Maxine — using deepfakes for good (saving bandwidth during video conferencing)
- James Somers on why speed matters — food for thought