Stopped reading at The first rule, in some ways the only rule, is skim, skim, skim. Nonsense, try to do that in a mathematical text and you understand literal

Stopped reading at The first rule, in some ways the only rule, is skim, skim, skim. Nonsense, try to do that in a mathematical text and you understand literally nothing anymore. This might work for lightweight texts, not densely written heavily mathematical and algorithmic texts. Maybe that works if you're studying something like literature and don't need to understand complex things afterwards. EDIT: He's a professor of history. I am not surprised. EDIT2: brudgers is right, the professor wrote like 2000 words later that none of his advice applies to the situation I mentioned. I think he should have clarified that in the beginning instead of the end of the post. Introducing a rule as universal and introducing exceptions much later is not a good practice.