From Sarah:

These are the rules of this particular meme:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

EIGHT random facts.

1. My sister and I have the same birthday, two years apart. From the first day she was born, she began mercilessly copying everything that I do - everything from television shows (Sex and the City, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development) to random catch-phrases.
2. Everytime I start a new job I create a new AIM/Yahoo username so that I can easily compartmentalize my previous lives. For people who think I’ve fallen off the face of the planet, I’m currently available at dave.yang on Yahoo.
3. I named my dog after a character in a comic book. I can’t even remember which comic book or the character but I liked the name. My favorite comic book as a child was Superman so it’s probably from there.
4. I missed a perfect score on my Math SAT by 10 points for which my friends/family have never let me live down.
5. After reading the top 5 books on the Modern Library’s list of great American literature, I’m still sticking with my original choice of Great Gatsby as hands-down the best book there. I also like Lolita a lot. I’m one of those people that think Atlas Shrugged should be on the list that the real “intelligentsia” mock. As a side note, Marissa Mayer reminds me of a brought-to-life modern Dagny Taggart and if I was casting the up and coming movie, I’d put her on the short list WAY above Angelina Jolie.
6. I probably have more clothes than most women but I end up wearing about 15 pieces in rotation and let the rest sit unloved in my closet. On the shoes front I’m probably below average.
7. I’ve worked at Microsoft, AMD, IBM, Ernst and Young, Deloitte and Yahoo. I even got to interview Bill Gates for my college technology magazine.
8. I gave up drinking soda around February of 2007 when I was at Yahoo where one of the major perks is unlimited soda. I gave up buying new stuff around September of 2007 after reading Paul Graham’s post on Stuff and having to throw away most of my belongings when moving to New York City. My credit card is going to come out of retirement to buy myself a Macbook Pro whenever the Steveness decides to release a new one.

And now I’ll tag Grace (my sister, so she can continue copying the things I do), Nimit, Brad, Sean E, Shayan, Vishesh, Dan and Dan K.

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In an effort to minimize energy waste, I often just throw 3 or 4 cookies in the milk at the same time.  As we all know, the black and white cookie doesn’t let milk hold it down.. it aggressively tries to elevate itself above the water line.  You can let these suckers wade in that milk all you want… when you pull them out expecting even greater sogginess than before, you are often shocked/amazed/petrified/flabbergasted that - against all odds - the cookie has remained rather crunchy.

My only theory as to why this is is: somehow, when you actively hold down the cookie in a vertical state, the pressure at 1.2 inches below surface level is great enough to penetrate the air pockets inside the cookie whereas at surface level this is a much more gradual (perhaps almost indefinite) process.  However, calcuations of water pressure at that depth measured against cookie pressure resistance proved to be difficult - mostly because I have no frickin’ clue how to measure either of those values.

So, I implore all you Oreo-in-milk lovers out there to explain this phenomenon to me.  Unfortunately, I have sincere doubts that anyone will a) ever find this post, b) care enough to read the entire thing and c) have the great wisdom and understanding to know the answer… I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles.

Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc. The purpose behind apps like these is to train our minds to get rid of all the other crap. So, by having a steady input of text, we erase our dependency on backtracing. By increasing the reading speed, subvocalization can’t keep up and eventually goes away… we don’t need to subvocalize to process information, as much as we may think we do.

I tried it using the text from “The Power of Now” by Steve Pavlina.  I like his posts but I find them a little verbose when I’m in my blog-reading attention span mode.  So I put the 2000 word post into spreeder and cranked up the text to about 900 words per minute.  I was surprised that I was able to actually get a lot of the meaning out of thetext (probably about 90% understanding) in about 2 minutes (whereas previously something like that might take me 6-8 minutes at about 250 wpm.  I think I might try it again with some text that is totally unfamiliar with me and see what level of comprehension I can get.

Update: Article on speed-reading techniques

Update: also tried Zapreader.com and it works a little better in my opinion cause you can use word chunks instead of just thousands of single words flying at you.

Slides available here: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2…

Cleverly enough, CNN then links to this series of articles right below it:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/whatittake…

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html