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by _bramses 3 days ago
Thanks for the feedback! I don’t agree with your assessment, since the slideshow is about books, not learning in general, but I’ll take those thoughts into consideration.

I agree with your point wrt fragmentation, but my point is to actually assess the underlying mechanisms and address them more directly.

> Reading something you don't want to is going to stifle retention regardless of how you try and quantify it.

I agree and in fact, I point that very thing out in the slide about bad habits of holding onto a book that is not serviceable.

As a meta point many of the things I would talk about are lost in the medium of cutting text for slides, and I apologize that the examples (like the Illustration sections) must be on the responsibility of the reader. It makes more sense when delivered alongside talking!