The Number of Books Completed Is a Vanity Metric

🧶 Tags:: #literature_Notes
🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

Most books have one point to make. Once I feel like I've gotten the gist, I feel very comfortable putting the book down. If they wrote it to make money, don't read it.

The number of books completed is a vanity metric. As you know more, you leave more books unfinished. Focus on new concepts with predictive power.

What practices do you follow to internalize/organize information from reading books? Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.