"How can you internalize all of that knowledge?
I can give you two hacks.
First, use repetition. Download the audio versions of Paul Graham's essays, burn them on a CD, and listen to them over and over again. Read books once, identify the ones you like, and then read those again and again, every six months."
- http://blogs.xobni.com/asmith/archives/27One problem is that I've re-read (and re-listened) to everything PG and Pmarca have ever posted on the damn internet, many times over. Now I just re-read the best ones for the 20th time. I read/listen on the train, at lunch, and at the park so my appetite is insatiable. Need. More. Content.
(btw, who are you? email me at adam@adamsmith.cc?)
(I'm no one. Just Another Startup Hacker. Not a YC founder or anything.)
I've had some thoughts about ways to include essay/non book summaries, but so far I haven't bothered - stuff that's free on the internet is usually short enough to read, because it hasn't been inflated with fluff in order to make a book out of it.