Books

I prefer to read in clusters.

When I find something I'm interested in, I stack multiple books on the same topic.

This has lots of benefits -- it provides perspective and helps me retain information better.

A few clusters I've enjoyed recently: the Manhattan Project, early computer age, autobiographies of writers.

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Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

I like to have a stack of somewhat unrelated books to encourage cross pollination of ideas, thinking about some things in different contexts

Ideas compound. Sentences compound. Your understanding will be greater for this. What kind of notes / highlights do you take as you read?

Yes! Currently: cinema greats, dead poets, fractal science, 1920s literary mavericks

Many. The ones that stand out are:
How the internet happened
The innovators
The new new thing
Turings cathedral
Steve Jobs
Pieces of the action

Stripe Press has a great selection that I would recommend checking out

What books did you read about early computer age

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Jack Kerouac
Joan Didion
Cinema Speculation
Walden

What writers’ autobiographies did you read? Any recommendations?

I’ve read Stephen King’s but no others I can remember.