A case for deep reading over social media snippets. The speaker argues studying is foundational to real learning, claiming tweets and quick demos only spark interest while structured, long-form reading actually builds intellectual strength needed for the learn-experiment-build-teach cycle.
Read books. When I talk about studying as being the third S of time allocation, I am heavily thinking that we are all over-indexed on doing cool short-form stuff and way under-indexed on doing long-form stuff. And, you know, seeing a tweet about a cool product does not count as studying. It puts a little idea into our mind, but it's not really deep. It doesn't exercise the muscles of our mind to make us better than we are. To be tweaking a little, you know, open source project might have some benefit to it. That's what I call the X of my, you know, learn, experiment, build, teach framework. But really, there's no substitute for starting with learn. How can you work your intellectual muscles? How can you read and take in things that are harder? When I say reading, there are multiple media by which we can do that. And I think really what I'm thinking of reading, I'm thinking about taking deliberately structured ideas and ingesting them into your brain, ones that have been laid out in a long-form thesis. When you do that, wow, you can win.
