We often think of writing (and reading) as primarily a matter of culture and education, which obscures its position as one of humanity’s most transformative… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (1): Transforming Fire; Slow Burn
In reality, what more agreeable entertainment to the mind, than to be transported into the remotest ages of the world, and to observe human society,… Read More »Children in Understanding: David Hume on Reading (history)
These brief videos from Nielsen Norman Group – and the articles accompanying them – are great summaries of principles of good design and worth (re)visiting… Read More »Resources from Nielsen Norman: Peak-End Rule, Working Memory, Cognitive Load and User Experience
DriverlessCrocodile on Oliver Burkeman Warning: “Recovering perfectionist” Oliver Burkeman is about to be everyone’s new favourite (anti) guru. With apologies (to you and him) for… Read More »Reading: Oliver Burkeman on information overload, big rocks and the British Library
This is a great take on the benefits of reading clusters of books on a common theme. I like the way it takes the idea… Read More »Slava Akhmechet on reading in clusters
I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Monsarrat’s The Cruel Sea. It’s one of the best war novels I’ve read, and served as the final book in… Read More »Trilogy: Books as Network
Paul Romer: On growth, my number two on human capital would be to think about skills throughout the whole skill and income distribution, especially if… Read More »Paul Romer on literacy, dyslexia, inequality and the joy of reading
Children’s fiction… offers to help us to refind things we may not even know we have lost. Adult life is full of forgetting… When you… Read More »Katherine Rundell on children’s books and imagination
You can’t force young people into literature. They need to be led by pleasure and wonder. Creating a new generation of readers is important. When… Read More »“Led by pleasure and wonder”: Dana Gioia on creating a new generation of readers
Children’s books today do still have a ghost of their educative beginnings, but what they are trying to teach us has changed. Children’s novels, to… Read More »Katherine Rundell on learning from children’s books