Reading Garden

The garden

a year and a half of reading — 1,407 highlights on 62 branches
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All branches 62 attention 214 craft 186 strategy 142 mortality 88 California 61 science of mind 54 money 42 friendship 29
grown last night · 22 threads

How to read it

A branch — a topic you return to
A sub-branch — a way you frame it
A leaf — one highlight
A thread — drawn by the garden
Maya's garden 1,407 highlights · 214 books · since Oct 2024 attention 214 leaves · 18 books craft 186 leaves · 14 books strategy 142 leaves · 11 books science of mind 54 leaves · 5 books mortality 88 leaves · 7 books California 61 leaves · 6 books money 42 leaves · 4 books friendship 29 leaves · 3 books deep work the present moment looking, slowly Newport — "the ability to focus" Csikszentmihalyi — "flow" Anders Ericsson — 10,000 hours Oliver — "attention is the beginning…" Dillard — "how we spend our days" Tolle — "the power of now" Cowen — "the slow death of attention" Berger — "ways of seeing" Solnit — "field guide" patterns apprenticeship slow software Alexander — pattern 159 Brand — "how buildings learn" Chimero — "show, don't tell" Rams — "good design is honest" Sennett — "the craftsman" Holiday — "obstacle is the way" Boyle — "the local first" Hickey — "simple made easy" persistence legitimacy Collison — "funding science" Thompson — strategy stack Buterin — "the most scarce resource" Hamilton — Federalist No. 78 predictive processing embodiment Clark — surfing uncertainty Wolfram — why GPT works Damasio — Descartes' error Sacks — "an anthropologist on Mars" Solnit on loss the end of things illness as metaphor Solnit — "lost things continue…" Nelson — Bluets, fragment 4 Gawande — "being mortal" Kalanithi — "when breath becomes air" Sontag — illness as metaphor Joan Didion land use Didion — "slouching toward Bethlehem" Didion — "the white album" McPhee — "assembling California" capital, slow Housel — "the psychology of money" Cowen — average is over letters, sustained Lopate — "the art of the personal essay" Berry — "the gift of good land"
Re-rooted on "Attention is the beginning of devotion." — for the next eight seconds.

Grown last night · 3 a.m.

  • 04:12 · craft → attention A new thread between Alexander's pattern 159 and Oliver's "attention is the beginning…" — same gesture, two languages.
  • 04:18 · attention The branch looking, slowly grew its second sub-leaf — Solnit's "field guide" joined Berger.
  • 04:24 · science of mind A new leaf for Wolfram's "why GPT works" — added to predictive processing.