Stefanos Karagos at Anabubula shows a great way to re-read a book in less than 15 minutes? How is it possible? He invests his time during his reading time by dropping his notes into a mindmap. Mindmap is great to recall on knowledge and memories. Quoted from Wikipedia: Scholarly research by Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy…

A few days ago, Dustin suggested that I write a post about “ways to use ___” to kick off the new year. At first, I was at a loss to fill in that blank. I couldn’t think of any gadget, program or trick that was important enough to make a year-long impact. Then it…

Roman Rytov introduces his new method of book reading, by combining reading through in detail and skim through. Inspired by Brad Feld’s record of 8 books per week, he suggests the following steps: Build expectations for the book Always read the book’s introductions (all of them). Understand the book pattern Take a sample and check the pace A book…

Reading is important for personal and professional development. If you want to grow your knowledge, you have to read. Reading is a tip of the iceberg though, digesting the information is the bigger piece on the block of ice. Here is something that is useful – George Ambler introduces a process to read and digest…

It used to be that the phrase “milking it” carried a pretty negative connotation with it for me, for as kids we only used it about people we thought were taking advantage of some situation without earning the right to do so. People who were “milking it” were the human equivalent of leeches. However I’ve recently…

With all those information process per day, large portion of them are reading. So speed reading is good skill to have for lifehackers. Here is an online tool called Spreeder which can train your mind to get rid of subvocalization and backtracing, by increasing the reading speed on the screen and steady output of text: What…

xBlog pointed me towards a great post about how one might go about reading books by Jim Collins, Michael Hammer, Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, and others. It’s packed with great ideas that “should” be top of our mind, but that for whatever reason we might forget in the heat of the moment. How

Speed-Reading is a nice skill to have. As most of the knowledges are gained from books, and there are so many readings to digest in work, speedreading can actually save us time. Here is the quick start for you on learning this skill. Keith Drury has written a quick article on teaching this technique. He…

Corante has a great list of reading materials for aspiring knowledge workers. In North America, summer is upon us, so maybe we’re also prespiring knowledge workers. The list has some greats. Here are a few: Improv Wisdom Bird by Bird The Mind Map Book The Creative Habit Thinking for a Living As you can tell, it’s a great list full…

Many of our audience are reading books for personal development. There are so many books around that promote and assist personal development, but how to best use of your time for the most appropriate book? George Ambler has the answer for you. He suggests couple of tips and questions for you to choose the book…

Keith Drury has written a quick notes on his speed-reading techniques. I think everyone will agree that speed reading is very useful for our life because we can learn more stuff in less time. His advices are really good (and summarized as well). He talks about some reading myths, preparation, rapid reading techniques and retention…

Ask Metafilter has a good discussion on how to take notes when reading. The readers have suggestion couple of tools such as paper notes, index card, personal wiki, software and so on. It is interesting to see many people who uses similar tools but different note taking method. For instance: … 1. In part, I…

One of my favorite bloggers, Bert Webb has introduced his quick and dirty way on getting through his piles of reading. He uses the 80/20 rules and apply this rule to his method of quick reading. First he identifies the 20% of the words that contains 80% of the content. Then he comes up with…

Blogger Adam Gurno has shared his system on bookmarking books using post-it flags. He calls it vertical cross-reference. Sounds like a complicated idea? It is not: … Before I run off to write the code, I’ll take 15 seconds and put a set of same-color flags near the XmFree in the index, the XmFree page, and…

When you need to research and write papers, highly likely you will need to extract information from some hard-to-read books. After starting to read the first couple of sentences, you may stop and decide to skim through it quickly. After a while, you increase your skimming speed, but you still can’t get its contents. Virginia…