[SuboptimalEng]

1. Don't listen to music/podcasts when showering, going on walks/runs or exercising (unless you are doing to something intense and need some motivation). This will allow you to brew the ideas already in your head.

2. Don't speed through books/blog posts. I was always confused when people said they read 1 book a week (unless it was a fiction book). When I read a non-fiction book, I take weeks to read it - even if it is not something dense. I read a chapter of a book or one blog post and let the ideas wander in my head as I shower, walk, or exercise ;)

3. When you get an idea, write it down in a simple app like Notes or Trello.

[Thursday24]

2 - Wonderful advice! It took me years to figure this out. The speedreading books/courses would instruct "Don't subvocalize" and so on. I tried doing all that, and never deeply internalized anything that way. These days when I read something worthwhile, I read it in a funny/crazy made-up voice in my head and take all the time in the world, and this helps me absorb the material and make it my own :)