---
title: "On Reading Slowly"
description: "A short note on why I stopped speed-reading papers."
pubDate: 2026-05-02
tags: ["habits"]
---

_[Filler note — replace with a real one.]_ I used to pride myself on reading
three papers a day. Then I noticed I couldn't reconstruct the argument of any
of them a week later.

Now I read one paper slowly, with a pen. The constraint is the feature: if a
claim doesn't survive being rewritten in my own words, I didn't understand
it, and neither — sometimes — did the authors.