Ryan Holiday recently posted a video on YouTube about 26 Reading Rules for 2026. This looked to be a fun post playing on Ryan's approach to reading and recommending books, but with a nod to the new year. Basically, a content creator creating book creator content and promoting his own business. And in my view, that's all great. However, the video ended up generating a number of reaction and response videos on YouTube and possibly other platforms where people discussed how they felt about those rules, whether they applied to their reading lives and whether it was appropriate to have rules at all. From my perspective, I say let there be rules and let there be no rules - it's all up to you. I am not going to do a reaction or a response to Holiday's specific rules 1 through 26. That is too much work. But I do have four main rules that I use to guide my reading or at least prevent my reading from becoming somebody else's project. I don't want to have ...
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