There is somewhat of a running joke in my family about the random things I share at the dinner table. Thankfully, more than half the time the things I say turn out to be true so I am batting over .500 on the recalling of the obscure things I read. I was never an avid reader growing up. You would rarely find me somewhere with pages open in front of me for hours on end, I just wasn’t that kind of a kid. Sometime in college, though, something happened where I started to become addicted to reading lists. I would hunt for reading lists from any person I respected, heard the name of a few times, or wanted to meet one day. These reading lists became my preferred libraries. Curated lists of articles, books, and essays that were recommended by people with the ethos I respected. I became a power user of Instapaper, saving everything I would find and would spend my bedtime hours scrolling those pages rather than scrolling Reddit or Instagram. Don’t worry, I still do more than enough of that too.
Opus 11: Best Reading of 2020
Opus 11: Best Reading of 2020
Opus 11: Best Reading of 2020
There is somewhat of a running joke in my family about the random things I share at the dinner table. Thankfully, more than half the time the things I say turn out to be true so I am batting over .500 on the recalling of the obscure things I read. I was never an avid reader growing up. You would rarely find me somewhere with pages open in front of me for hours on end, I just wasn’t that kind of a kid. Sometime in college, though, something happened where I started to become addicted to reading lists. I would hunt for reading lists from any person I respected, heard the name of a few times, or wanted to meet one day. These reading lists became my preferred libraries. Curated lists of articles, books, and essays that were recommended by people with the ethos I respected. I became a power user of Instapaper, saving everything I would find and would spend my bedtime hours scrolling those pages rather than scrolling Reddit or Instagram. Don’t worry, I still do more than enough of that too.