But it fits nicely with the overall theme. I’d completely forgotten about reading it, of course. With almost all the farmland gone, parts of this one-magical county, home to Disneyland, start to seem usual and urban. It used to be the suburban dream to move to Orange County, amid the orchards and farms. Part of the issue is that the nice things about California are becoming less nice as the state gets more crowded. But there is a link to this CNN piece, from 2011: So I was too lazy to include a proper citation of Graham’s essay, but the basic ideas are there. Boston has MIT and Harvard, but it also has a lot of truculent, unionized employees like the police who recently held the Democratic National Convention for ransom, and a lot of people trying to be Thurston Howell. If it hadn’t already been hijacked as a new euphemism for liberal, the word to describe the atmosphere in the Bay Area would be “progressive.” People there are trying to build the future. The atmosphere varies from city to city, and fragile organisms like startups are exceedingly sensitive to such variation. I brace myself for rudeness: remember, you’re back on the East Coast now. The first thing I see when I walk out of the airline terminal is the fat, grumpy guy in charge of the taxi line. I notice that when I come home to Boston. “What makes the Bay Area superior is the attitude of the people. Paul Graham even lists the California attitude as an advantage for startups: The East Coast probably has 24-hour markets now. And some of those advantages have changed: I perceive Southern Californians as nice, but in a superficial way. This makes working in California harder, but also more pleasant. And so many of the basic necessities of life are made so easy for you: The markets are often open twenty-four hours a day, nobody snarls at you in the stores when you’re trying to buy something. Sure, they bitch about their smog, but unless you’re a Hawaiian born and bred, the weather is terrific. It’s more like this: Everything’s so goddamn nice out there. “But my particular crazies are not why I find writing so difficult. I’m reading the section about L.A., and I found that, in my previous read, I’d connected it to something Paul Graham had written. Because it’s a re-read, I’m trying to decide if I should keep the book (I have too many) or donate it or give it away. But when I finish a new book, I’ll check the “see also” pane of Devonthink Pro to see what else the program dredges up.įor example, right now I’m re-reading William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade.
I use it, basically, as Steven Berlin Johnson describes here and here. It’s an amazing program you’ve seen appear before, but only if you’ve been reading a very long time. I do something similar to Heaton, except that I don’t use Anki but do copy annotated quotes to Devonthink Pro. This Twitter thread has more suggestions. He then makes flashcards of them, using Anki, a spaced-repetition flashcard program.
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Robert Heaton has a post, “ How to read,” that describes how he annotates books he reads, then produces a “writeup” of them afterwards.
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