If you go on a 3-day long weekend getaway that’s not suitable for reading, on the following Monday you need to read 56-pages just to keep up. Reading 14 pages isn’t so hard doing it consistently can be very hard. If you’re curious this amounts to reading about 14 pages a day. I decided early in the year on a figure of 500 words per page to make sure these were proper pages, not the 250-word, double-spaced pages we all wrote as high school Freshman. Kelly’s list actually has hundreds of entries and I read a number outside of the top 25.īecause most articles these days are online my goal essentially translated into reading 2.5 million words. Other lists in the search results are publication specific, say, Esquire’s Top 10 Best Articles). Of course, any such list is arbitrary, but as far as lists like this go it seems to be definitive (try Googling “best magazine articles ever” and his list comes up repeatedly. Kelly solicited hundreds of suggestions from contacts in the publishing industry and ranked the articles according to the number of recommendations. (My other goals were to study both math and programming every day of the year (success!) and listen to 500 hours of podcasts, I only hit 300).Ī sub-goal, which I also completed, was to read the top 25 magazine articles ever written as determined by Kevin Kelly, founding editor at Wired. This year I had a goal of reading 5,000 pages of magazine and news articles (and a few blogs and academic papers).
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