What are you reading?
The value of reading and the WTP Bookshop
I decided to increase the time I invest in reading this year. Knowing I had wanted to read more for years but continued to look at stacks of untouched books, I established a habit of reading for an hour every morning before I open up my projects for the day.1
I also moved in the spring, and finally have enough space to put all my books on shelves where they can rightly enjoy the sunshine in between my disturbing them to look for a quote or passage I can only hazily remember.
Reading — especially reading books — takes time. We like to think that listening to podcasts while we do the dishes or asking AI to summarize long articles puts us in a better position. Unfortunately, while it may let us do more things, we miss out on the value reading provides.
Research has confirmed that reading stimulates our brain in part because it forces us to devote our full attention to the task at hand. Conversely, when I was a kid, a doctor told me that my brain was less active wat…
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