There are a lot of blog posts that have >5 links to other blog posts. I used to click on all of these, and upon seeing that I hadn't read them, I would embark on a several hour long journey of reading until exhaustion, often times without even finishing the original post I started.
Recently, I had the simple realization that I could usually read a blog straight through without ever reading one of the linked posts while still understanding the content of the blog.
I wanted to share this with other lurkers in hopes that I could make reading on LessWrong more enjoyable and efficient.
Exercise for the reader: don't click the links!
I would encourage people intending to succeed at integrative research to practice getting through all the sublinks from an article in a limited amount of time - eg, for practice purposes, set ten 10-minute timers, read one seed article every ten minutes, try to get through enough sublinks to be sure you mentally loaded a syllabus of the sublinks. I'm sure there's a lot more good work out there in academia about how to get through a literature search for different purposes and how to practice being good at it; I might try to do some literature searching on that very topic myself, but whether I do or not, I'd love to hear any seed links folks have about how to learn to do a slow and solid literature search and when and how to instead do a fast and time-boxed lit search.
I find this approach very useful when attempting to understand a new subfield (eg neural implicit representations) entirely by reading the most recent papers in the subfield, something I do often.
nope, I've read very little of this site's older discussions, thanks for the reference to a good one!