Hi Ken Norton Thanks for sharing this. Very useful to learn about the habits and discipline of successful people in our industry so we can learn from them.

There were some very interesting thoughts that resonated with my practices in the last one year as well so wanted to share:

1. I bought a Kindle Voyage as well one year back and that changed my life. It had definitely helped me read more, read comfortably and make use of all the advantages you mentioned about e-reading: as soon as one book was finished, I could immediately download another one and get going.
2. I NEVER leave my house without my Kindle now — whether it is for a meeting or a doctor’s appointment or even meeting friends, I just put it in my coat jacket. This has helped my punctuality as well as now I look forward to arriving 15 mins earlier than scheduled. This way, I am calm before a meeting AND it gives me time to relax and read.
3. Regarding time: this is something I have made sacrosanct in the last couple of years. I’d always wanted to read but would only read if something really interesting came along, like Steve Jobs’s or Elon Musk’s biography. But then I scheduled one hour everyday for reading and have been following it diligently for the last couple of years.
4. Obviously there are days when I’m unable to schedule this one hour but I’ve made it into a weekly cycle — to make sure I catch up on 6–7 hours of reading for the week. So some weekends are brutal!!!
5. You mentioned a good point regarding starting some books and not finishing them because they may not be interesting. I have been trying to diversify my reading and trying to read authors who I normally would not have. Whenever I start a book, it is usually after a lot of research and references which really makes me want to read that book. So when I start it, I’m not exactly sure how easy or difficult it will be to read but I’ve made sure I’ve finished each and every book I’ve started.
6. The scheduling of an hour a day has made it possible. Even if the book is a little difficult to grasp, I just reduce the target number of pages for the day, go thru it slower to understand it better but I make sure I spend that one hour on the book. This discipline has helped me complete many books that I normally would not have, eg. Mein Kampf, The Black Swan or even Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
7. Once you get into the mindset of reading, you always tend to highlight and track reading lists by people you admire. And this always keeps my pipeline full and me eager to start the next book.
8. In terms of tracking what I am reading, I love using Product Hunt’s collection feature. All my books are logged here: https://www.producthunt.com/@vishal1982/collections/books
9. I also try and put in a 2–3 sentence summary about the book.
10. What I find truly truly amazing is while reading these books, Twitter gives us the medium to interact with these amazing authors who actually read our comments and respond. Its such an amazing feeling, shout out to few such authors Jordan Ellenberg (Jordan Ellenberg) and Steven Levy (Steven Levy).

Again, thanks for sharing. Really enjoyed it!

Cheers.