manjotpahwa

Great move, hope to see such memos by other tech leaders.

I never claimed I retain 90%+ I said Bill Gates does according to that documentary :) What I aim to retain is one single principle or thought from a whole book. Which is why I suggested writing a summary at the end.

Oh absolutely agree with reading speeds being different for different books (I actually had that line earlier, I shortened the post to just mention the principles though).

This post was not meant at all as a silly braggy post about speed reading, not that speed reading is anything to brag about in the first place. Why I say these things changed my life is because, it doesn't matter whether I read 100 books or half a book. What matters is if I learnt just one single principle from it which I actually use. Some of the things mentioned in the post such as taking notes and writing a summary at the end truly helped with that.

Feedback welcome!