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What to read? Big questions as filter and frame (Part 7)
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This is part seven of a series on tackling wants, managing my media diet, and
finding enough. Each post stands alone. See the introduction on “[158]the
mindset of more” for links to all posts in the series.
Social media and streaming subscriptions encourage us to [159]gorge on the glut
of information (Harjas Sandhu describes [160]“hoarding type scrolling” that
sounds veeeery familiar), promising that the algorithm will feed us the best.
Instead of helping us practice discernment, corporate platforms offer us an
all-you-can-eat buffet of candy. Yet as Olga Koutseridi [161]writes,
“low-quality info is designed to leave us craving more instead of leaving us
feeling satisfied.” We keep eating and eating, but there’s nothing of substance
to sustain us.
I think curiosity is innately good, and that there’s value in learning about
many aspects of the world for no more reason than that it is interesting. At
the same time, I have limited time and capacity for thinking — I need [162]some
sort of filter for what to read, especially as I make efforts [163]to slow my
pace. The morass of information online is what brought us algorithmic curation
and now pushes genAI — but [164]corporate algorithms encourage rage and
polarization and create [165]“curiosity ruts”, so I [166]avoid them.
How can I create my own mental algorithm for choosing what to read?
For me, reading and blogging are interconnected; [167]what I read influences
what I write about. I’m working on flipping that around, with the goal that
[168]what I want to write about determines what I read. But how to decide what
to write about, if not by what I read?
What I’m trying is using [169]my Big Questions as a structure for curiosity, a
way to practice more intentionality in what I spend my time thinking about.
I’ve been working on this for a few years, but I feel like I’m getting a better
handle on it now.
tl;dr I’m basically doing [170]research projects for fun 😉
Since I started this experiment, I’ve noticed I’m less driven to read random
stuff online because I’m so excited about this playful approach to reading. The
carrot method — giving myself exciting things to think about — has worked way
better than the stick method of deleting my feed reader from my phone so that
the only thing I had to read was my Read Later app, which instead drove me to
read the Bluesky and mastodon.social Discover feeds (do not recommend) in a
desperate quest for novelty and news. Glad I dodged that becoming a habit 🙌
(I personally dislike video and podcasts, so I’m talking about reading in this
piece, but I think the same approach applies to any media type.)
The Big Questions framing
I got the framing of [171]Big Questions at an [172]Oliver Burkeman workshop. I
recall it as a tangential mention but it immediately sent me spinning. As
simple an idea as it is to identify some key overarching questions in your
life, sometimes we need to put a name to something to really get it.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff recounts advice Richard Feynman gave “to keep a dozen of
your favorite problems constantly present in your mind,” and describes [173]
favorite problems as “a curiosity engine”:
Your favorite problems form a prism that separates incoming information
into a spectrum of ideas — a frame that allows you to deliberately filter
distractions, direct your attention, and nurture your curiosity.
Last year, I [174]wanted to do more self-directed writing, but it was
challenging not to be reactive. This year, I’m discovering that self-guided
reading is the other half of the equation.
Big questions give me a reason to seek rather than simply receive, and are
broad enough to provide direction without constraint.
Turning directed curiosity into big questions
Reading towards questions gives purpose to my curiosity. Curiosity comes in two
styles: receptive and directed. Receptive curiosity is openness to learning;
directed curiosity is more active, and [175]invites you deeper. Allen Pike
[176]observes that the internet primarily serves our receptive curiosity:
By occasionally picking things to go deep on, you balance out the otherwise
broad information diet we all get by default by being on the internet,
consuming media, and just kind of being a modern human.
My big questions coalesced out of my receptive curiosity reading; I identified
my first big questions in 2023 by reflecting on what I’d been thinking and
writing about and looking for overarching themes. I first listed off a bunch of
smaller questions within that theme, then worked backwards to find a bigger
question uniting them all. Defining these questions made me enunciate for
myself exactly what it was I was wondering, a process I found helpful in
itself.
Last fall, I realized that my big questions didn’t align with my main interests
anymore, so I created a few new ones and retired a couple. Updating my [177]big
question pages a couple-three times a year also nudges me to notice which
questions I’ve been neglecting and might like to put some attention towards, or
retire.
Big questions are a self-created tool that serves my thinking, not the other
way around. I don’t treat them as a boundary to my curiosity, but can expand or
add to my questions when I need. The questions are big enough to keep exploring
within for a year or more, still offering plenty of the novelty I crave. I
think of the Big Questions as high level themes, and blog posts as a way to
explore sub-questions within them.
How this changes my reading
The feed reader and beyond
I subscribe to a ton of feeds, ever-changing, which showers me in riches of
information that satisfy my broad curiosity, some directly from topical blogs
and some shared by [178]cool people. Earlier this year, I reoriented the way I
think of the topic-specific blogs and newsletters I follow, and moved them from
my blogroll page onto my big question pages. It’s now easier for me to unfollow
and refollow topical feeds as my focus shifts between questions.
I’ve also been more proactive in seeking out online articles related to my
questions — I’ve been using [179]Search My Site, [180]Marginalia Search, and
appending Reddit to DDG searches to seek out opinions and recommendations.
These smaller, weirder information pools yield some intriguing results. (There
are so many personal websites out there guys!)
Choosing not to read *good* online content
Marco Giancotti points out that [181]weeding out the bad stuff isn’t the hard
part of deciding what to read (emphasis mine):
Filtering out spam and slop is relatively easy with the right tools and a
little thought, at least at an emotional level.
The much tougher job, I think, is giving up on things that would be good,
meaningful, fulfilling, and useful in order to do things that are even more
so—or, to be precise, to do things that are better aligned with what I
really care about right now. The hard part is dealing with the fact that,
whatever I may try, I will never get to do the vast majority of those
amazing activities.
I’m of two minds here: I don’t want to ignore everything that isn’t immediately
useful, but recognize that I read a lot of things that leave me with nothing
more than “cool🤷‍♀️” (or [182]political stuff that ties me in a knot of nerves
and anger). I don’t want to fall prey to utilitarianism, [183]reading only what
has a tangible, immediate takeaway, but also find I do get more satisfaction
from going deep.
Oliver Burkeman writes about accepting our finitude in Four Thousand Weeks,
commenting (emphasis mine):
“Social media is a giant machine for getting you to spend your time caring
about the wrong things, but for the same reason, it’s also a machine for
getting you to care about too many things, even if they’re each
indisputably worthwhile.”
I cannot care about everything, and trying to prevents me from going deep on
the things I care most about. Wendell Berry puts it: “To know some things well
is to know other things not so well, or not at all. Knowledge is always
surrounded by ignorance.”
Accepting my own interests
I [184]use my Read Later app as [185]the filter point between my shoulds and my
interests; everything I encounter online and want to read gets saved there. I
tag articles with key topics and themes (including “mindset of more” for
articles related to this series) to let me see only articles related to my
questions. When a bit of time has passed from saving the article and I am less
emotionally invested, I can more easily let go of the things that I imagine
“someone like me” ought to read. Looking into these “should” articles often
exposes tender spots of (typically unwarranted) inadequacy, or what-if’s around
choices long since made.
What this ultimately requires is self-knowledge and self-acceptance — to
release our imagined selves and [186]“navigate by aliveness.” We must not judge
our own curiosities as unworthy, or torment ourselves that we ought to be
different people than we are. Whatever we are interested in, however
idiosyncratic, holds meaning for us, and that’s what counts.
(It is possible to gently shift your own interests towards self-actualization,
especially if resistance is your barrier — Tara McMullin [187]names this
“discrepancy reduction.”)
Curating reading lists
After reading around a question for a while online, I start to get a better
feel for where I should dig in to books. The internet primarily produces
breadth, but books offer depth.
In the past, I would pick a single book as representative of a topic I was
broadly curious about and call it good. Now, I’m going more [188]research-style
, collecting a stack of books on the same topic, knowing full well that I won’t
read them all*.
*(My library system allows us to keep books for up to three months if there are
no active holds so my eyes are always bigger than my reading time 😅)
I start off by [189]browse-searching the library catalog for books related to a
question that’s been niggling at me — this spring one has been: in the age of
generative AI, what’s the value in craftsmanship? — and collecting potential
titles into [190]a list. Of course, I have my own answer to this question, but
the meaning of making can be a tricky thing to describe, so I wanted to see how
others have done so, and explore some different angles:
• What’s the value of art and craftsmanship to the creator, to the receiving
audience, to society?
• How have we dealt with similar challenges to craftsmanship in the past, and
how is generative AI different?
• What do artists, writers, academics, craftspeople think?
• What is craft, and how do we learn it? How is what generative AI does
different than what human creators are doing?
I try to keep the lists generously open-ended — since these are library books I
don’t have to pay for, I have nothing to lose from trying something a bit out
there besides a bit of time. (I had been keeping a single list with all my
questions crammed together but have finally taken the time to separate them out
😉) Art books, poetry, memoirs, all fair game. Celine Nguyen [191]observes,
“Research as a leisure activity isn’t constrained by these disciplinary
fiefdoms and schisms. Any discipline can offer interesting ideas, tools,
techniques.” I’m trying to turn my “ooh?” energy towards intriguing books than
enticing online articles.
(I’ve also been buying more books that the library doesn’t have, so three
months ago I set a goal to read one physical non-fiction book I own each month,
partly to clear up shelf space and partly to give myself some impetus to
actually read books I own — we’ll see if I can keep it up!)
When I’m requesting books from the library (we get free holds — 25 on ebooks
and I’ve never hit the limit on physical), I skim through the library list and
try to think about which would be most helpful to read next based on where my
thinking is now. (This is also influenced by what has a wait list.) Although I
like reading fiction as an ebook, I prefer to read non-fiction in hard copy. I
benefit from having a non-fiction book in sight — it’s easy for non-fiction
ebooks to get pushed below the digital fold so I forget I have them borrowed —
and a due date so I actually get around to reading it 😉
(And let’s be honest, I’m often thinking towards multiple questions at once —
once I’m excited about something, I want the book now! Maybe I’ll get better
about this, but I’ve read multiple books for as long as I’ve been reading, so I
don’t see that stopping 🤷‍♀️ Self-acceptance 😜)
Although I’m reading the book or article [192]towards a particular theme, I’ll
still write down unrelated connections — if I can’t use it for the post at top
of mind, it might apply to a future question or post. Despite starting off with
a vague idea of the question I’m getting at, I find that my original question
often shifts and becomes more compelling, and I develop new questions. I’ll
write more than one blog post, and explore more than one question, based on
what I’ve been reading this spring and summer.
How I’ve been choosing books to read
Here’s a demonstration of my selections across four library runs (you’ll see
I’m still grabbing books for entertainment, other interests, and broad
curiosity, but also focusing on a particular topic):
stack of 8 library books, two on writing craft, three on the arts and crafts
movement[193]In April, I decided to dig into the Arts and Crafts movement as a
historic example of valuing handiwork. I started with [194]In Harmony with
Nature, an art-style book about Arts & Crafts gardens that offered an
introduction, then read [195]The Arts and Crafts Movement, which gave me just
what I was looking for: quotes from the founders of the movement about what
craftsmanship meant to them. [196]Dangerous Fictions offered a slightly
different angle on interrogating the function of art in culture, especially
difficult art. I drew on the Arts & Crafts background for my blog post about
the [197]Business Borg. stack of library books that includes six books related
to the mindset of more seriesMy [198]early May library haul had four books
loosely related to AI / craftsmanship (American Book Design and William Morris,
Deep Dream, More Than Words, and Changing the Subject) and two related more
broadly to the “mindset of more” theme (Possessed and The Plenitude of
Distraction). I dipped into American Book Design, decided it was more technical
than I wanted, and fully read [199]More Than Words, which directly compared
writing with generative AI text, and [200]Plenitude for an exploration of
leisurely thinking and “unproductive” behavior. flatlay of 7 library books
related to cultural elites and the creative classMy [201]late May library haul
focused on cultural elites and impacts on the creative class. I read [202]
Pretentiousness, which advocated for the value of pushing artistic boundaries,
and [203]The Crisis of Culture, which connected better to a different question
I was thinking about 😉 I rejected The Meaning in the Making and read a review
of Elite Capture that made me think their definition of elite wasn’t what I was
looking for. After skimming the table of contents for Culture Crash, I decided
it wasn’t getting at the interesting part of the question for me, so my reading
time would be better spent elsewhere. stack of 9 library books, including 6
related to blog postsFor my [204]early June library haul, I wanted to follow a
thread of interest on identity politics, so I grabbed The Class Matrix and The
Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. I also borrowed four more
related to the AI / craftsmanship question: What We See When We Read, The Art
of Slow Writing, The AI Mirror, and Unmasking AI. I read all of [205]What We
See, digging into what’s actually happening while we are reading. The
introduction to The Class Matrix made me realize it was more advanced theory
than I was prepared to read. Based on time limitations, I decided the AI books
weren’t a priority.
When writing is the point of your notes — when informing your writing is the
goal behind reading — Richard Griffiths [206]proposes that it’s most useful to
“develop a concept of your intended output before you start reading a book.
That way, your interests will fruitfully guide your reading and note-making.” I
do this by periodically ducking into my collecting grounds (draft blog post)
for a particular question and developing a starter outline of declarative
statements. I organize the material I’ve already collected (initially from
online readings) into those headings, then continue to read more based on the
parts of my argument I’m not sold on yet, or where I don’t feel comfortable
making a declarative / interesting statement.
Reading with purpose
Sometimes I like to read for the sake of reading, and sometimes I enjoy more
purposeful reading. Knowing that I’m planning to write about a question changes
how I read by defining my idea space. Instead of reading according to receptive
curiosity, I’m using directed curiosity to seek what of the text relates to my
question. It makes me pay closer attention to language that I might quote in a
blog post.
When I read non-fiction, two levels of interpretation are happening in my mind
at the same time: first, I am directly intaking the language and interpreting
the author’s intention; at another level, I am processing it analytically and
relationally, trying to understand what it means to me. Johan Hari [207]
describes it: “If you weren’t letting your mind wander a little bit right now,
you wouldn’t really be reading this book in a way that would make sense to you.
Having enough mental space to roam is essential for you to be able to
understand a book.” This is an [208]unfocused, connective mode of thinking that
uses my brain’s [209]default mode network. I use reading non-fiction as a
commitment to spend time thinking about a subject; the book itself is a tool
towards that.
When I read towards a question, I concentrate my connection-making within that
question space, but it remains loose. [210]I am reading for ideas, not
information per se, so [211]the dialogue between me and the book is what
matters. Roland Barthes [212]writes, “[The text] produces, in me, the best
pleasure if it manages to make itself heard indirectly; if, reading it, I am
led to look up often, to listen to something else.” Just as [213]writing
doesn’t only look like typing, reading doesn’t only look like rapt attention to
the page. A big question offers a frame for my reading, like the viewfinder of
a camera; framing is a way of sense-making.
Further reading:
[214]How Small-Town Public Libraries Enrich the Generative Research Process by
Nick Fuller Googins (LitHub)
[215]More search, less feed by Austin Kleon
See also:
[216]Choosing between ideas for blog posts
[217]How I approach crafting a blog post
Shout-out to [218]James for asking about my Big Questions last December and
(eventually) prompting this!
This is the (current) last article in a [219]series on the mindset of more.
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• Previous: [220]Slow craft: writing with a noncapitalist mentality (Part 6)
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[225]novelty, [226]Oliver Burkeman, [227]play, [228]process, [229]reading,
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[] [234]Jay says: @ [235]thejaymo.net
[236]August 17, 2025 at 12:06 pm
The summer is waning, you can feel it in the mornings, the dog days are over,
and it’s getting noticeably darker earlier in the evenings
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[IMG_9150-100x] [238]Joe Crawford says: @ [239]artlung.com
[240]August 17, 2025 at 7:12 pm
What to read? Big questions as filter and frame (Part 7)
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[] [242]Ruben Verweij says: @ [243]kedara.eu
[244]August 29, 2025 at 7:20 am
What to read? Big questions as filter and frame (Part 7)
– Tracy Durnell
I love Tracy’s idea of defining personal Big Questions. She uses these
questions as a basis, to decide what she’ll read and write about (and
crucially, what not). I’ll definitely think about what my Big Questions are.
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[70c71f48c24aa] [246]Tracy Durnell says: @ [247]tracydurnell.com
[248]September 6, 2025 at 12:52 pm
I saw someone post a (kind) reminder to go back and read your saved for later
articles. I’m here to tell you you don’t have…
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