The best way to improve your Reading Return on Invested Time (RROIT) is to carefully filter the books you read. If you’re wondering what to read, here are two simple ideas that we can combine to help us choose what we read next. *** Are you making the most of your reading time?
Understand Deeply
Get back to basics
- People who understand the basics are better at understanding second and subsequent order consequences
- Acquiring the basic mental models from multiple disciplines allows you to see things that other people can’t
- Understanding the basics allows us to predict what matters
- Build your foundation
The Lindy Effect
What has been will continue to be
- The longer a technology lives, the longer it can be expected to live
- Time can predict value
- While humans have a mathematical life expectancy that decreases with each day, some things, like books, increase in life expectancy with each passing day
- Your ROI on reading and understanding a concept from 500 years ago is highly likely to be exponentially greater in the long run
Understanding Time-Tested Ideas
Knowledge has a half-life
- The most useful knowledge is a broad-based multidisciplinary education of the basics
- Take a simple idea and take it seriously
- Time-tested ideas are ones that have lasted, and thus will last, for a long time
