Extracted from 1,692 public sources over 13 years. The headline count reflects the public archive; the timeline below still reads as a map of the full capture history.
Steady, book-focused reading
Reading collapsed — just 21 highlights in all of 2019
430x resurgence, driven by articles and agentic AI
Peak: 2022 (9,034) · Average: 239/month · Biggest surge: 2020 (+5,610% from 2019)
Timeline, streak, and surge figures reflect the full Readwise capture history. Public archive counts above exclude tweet exports and non-feed fragments.
Average: 27.9 highlights per source. The most-read book — Dancing in the Glory of Monsters — has 460, roughly 16x the average. The median is just 9.
The agentic cluster — 8 tags spanning design patterns, workflows, philosophy, and coding — accounts for 4,117 highlights. That's 66% of all tagged highlights.
Highlights marked as favorites over the years.
"The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from ..."
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath"We’ve spoken to organizations that have spent $28 million and twelve months to add a single option to their billing system. We’ve seen organizations invest in automation that won’t improve their time to market by a single percent. We’ve seen organizations with high-performing, mu..."
Steve Pereira and Andrew Davis
Flow Engineering"The future of software architecture lies not just in technical excellence, but in our ability to create meaningful semantic abstractions that stand the test of time. By understanding coupling as a multi-dimensional concept and abstraction as a semantic tool, we can build systems ..."
Vision for future of software architecture focused on semantic abstraction
System Design Blog
The Art of Abstraction: Semantic Coupling in Complex Systems"Two common mistakes are (1) attempting to automate decision-making tasks without redesigning the surrounding business process, and (2) redesigning a business process without considering how the decision-making will be automated. Decision management should always be considered bot..."
Alan N. Fish
Knowledge Automation"Data is the new center of gravity The difficulty of migrating data between clouds poses perhaps the biggest barrier to a successful multi-cloud strategy. A report by Omdia revealed that the inability to move workloads between clouds is slowing cloud computing adoption among 52% o..."
Accenture | Oracle
To the Multi-Cloud and Beyond
