Simon Eskildsen (Director of Product Engineering at Shopify) shares his elaborate system to read, retain, and apply the lessons in hundreds of books.

Along the way he discovered that reading broadly was the best way to get to the bottom of things, and therefore the best way to get better at his job.

We explore his elaborate system for remembering what he reads using Readwise and Anki, how he built his own custom Zettelkasten in Markdown, his process for automating his language learning, and his project to cook a dish from every country in the world.