Dwarkesh Patel: commitment

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…You've shared on Twitter, using Anki. Or even, like, a Claude integration. Do you do book clubs? Do you use GoodReads? And what are you reading right now? I don't have book clubs. [Bud the SpaceBar edition] has just genuinely been a huge uplift in my ability to learn. Mostly because- it's not even the long-term impact over years, though I think that is part of it and I do regret all the episodes I did without using Speech Marking Cards, because all the insights have just sort of faded away. The main thing is, if you're studying a complicated subject, at least for me, it's been super helpful to consolidate. So if you don't do it, you feel like a general where you're like, "I'm gonna wage a campaign against this country." And then you climb one hill. And then the next day you're at a retreat, and then you climb the same hill. There might be a more kosher analogy. yeah. And then the other question was what am I reading right now? Oh. My friend Alvaro De Menard, author of Fantastic Anachronism. Can I just hold it up? Actually it's right here. I hope he's okay with me sharing this. But he made 100 copies of this translation he did of his favorite Greek poet. Cavafy. Hopefully I didn't mispronounce it. Sorry, that one has a good inscription for Guern, because that's his copy, but it's super delightful, and that's what I've been reading recently. Any insights from it so far?…

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