Take notes while reading books
Epistemic status: Easier said than done. This is a hard habit to adopt.
Having been doing this with The Creative Act: A Way of Being, I’m wishing I would do the same for Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World and all other future books I read. Grabbing quotes from paper is easier than ever thanks to Apple’s magical OCR, so there’s no excuse to not snap anything that grabs your attention, anything that demands further investigation.