read more books.
they let you borrow decades of thinking for the price of a few hours.
every great engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, or leader stands on ideas they didn’t invent.
books are how you access them.
read books on:
math → learn how to think precisely
physics → understand the rules of reality
engineering → learn how things are built
history → see patterns repeat across generations
psychology → understand people, including yourself
economics → understand incentives and systems
biology → learn how nature solves problems
don’t just read.
underline.
take notes.
build.
teach.
argue with the author.
connect one book to another.
knowledge compounds.
the person who reads one good book every week for ten years becomes very difficult to compete with.
books don’t just give you information.
they upgrade the operating system you think with.