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The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
Ep. 328 - Restarting the Local Maximum: Book Strategies for 2025
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Ep. 328 - Restarting the Local Maximum: Book Strategies for 2025

After a hiatus, The Local Maximum returns. Max and Aaron share what’s changed, where the show is headed, and how to get the most out of your reading in 2025. We cover everything from avoiding reading

Returning after a Hiatus

  • Today is just going to be a hangout with me and Aaron if you’re into that.. And later, we’ll return to more specific topics

  • Give a little personal history & history of the show

Full Move to NYC

Teaching

  • Less time

Hopscotch Labs

  • Working on that

  • Beebot - coming SOON!!

  • Internship Program

Hope for The Local Maximum

Reading Habits and Strategies (for the busy)

  • Is it still worth reading books in the AI era?

  • What do I do if I get stuck on a book?

    • How do I know I’m stuck?

  • Can you read 2 books at once?

  • How do I deal with these enormous tomes in my bookshelf

    • What about textbooks?

  • Local Maximum examples

    • AJ Jacobs - easy to read! I didn’t think I’d be interested in the topic

    • Jeffrey Tucker - fun to read!

  • Sweet spot: 100-200 pages with SHORT CHAPTERS

    • Books with 50-page chapters - WHY

  • Topics: Current affairs vs History, philosophy, self-help, fiction?

    • Examples

  • Revisiting The Singularity is Nearer (Ep. 323 - The Technological Singularity Part I & Ep. 324 - The Technological Singularity Part II)

  • Tracking tools

https://app.thestorygraph.com/

    • (pause feature and journal feature)

    • Take notes during or after; don’t wait!

Upcoming Topics for The Local Maximum

  • Pull up the sheet

  • Will we have a schedule? I plan on doing this differently

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