What this means is, when you’re reading you might see words but not be absorbing them. Why? Reading is something you do that takes mental energy. And lots of folks plow through fatigue and believe they are making forward progress if they can make themselves endure. That’s usualy not true. Know what your attention span […]

Is there a book stack on your nightstand? It’s there because you purchased it with best intentions. This time it would of been different: you would read it. But here’s the thing. It’s almost never about not wanting to do it. It’s about the false idea that you’ll always have more time, and struggle of […]

When you open a thick industry report, or even a dense academic PDF, before lunchtime, you’re hit by wave of dread. How many minutes? Two hours? Twenty? Glance at the page count and you have no idea. Most of us are guessing wrong: we conflate our attention span with our reading speed. We assume that […]

Line length is bad. You know you have this problem when you can’t control it on screen. Your eyes wander almost twenty inches until you arrive at the start of the following sentence when you are reading through a long article that takes up your entire laptop screen. The piece isn’t poorly written, the page’s […]