Reading is on my mind a lot these days. There’s just so much content out there. You can’t even hope to read everything that interests you. The best you can do is narrow down the content as much as possible, and then dedicate time every day to chipping away at it.

I created this article to keep track of ideas on how to approach reading so you get the most out of it. I think the first step is to keep track of what you want to read by creating reading lists, so I have a few of those.

Reading Lists

• Distributed Systems
• Systems Design

Reading Research Papers

I love reading research papers. The trouble with them is that there are so many of them, and it’s hard to sort out which ones to focus on. How to Read a Paper (S. Keshav) presents a useful strategy for reading papers to minimize time wasted reading papers that are either not relevant to your interests, or are not of high quality.