Notes on Building a Reading Habit
Reading more is less about speed and more about removing the small frictions that keep books closed.
The friction audit
Most reading advice is about discipline. Mine is about friction.
Make the book the easiest object
Leave it open, face up, in the place where you already sit. The phone is a formidable competitor; give the book a home-field advantage.
Read in smaller rooms
Ten minutes in a waiting room is a real reading session. The habit grows through fragments, not through uninterrupted afternoons that never arrive.
Keep a trace
A line in a notebook is enough. The point is not the archive; the point is the attention.