Online privacy and free access to information should be guaranteed human rights.

Education needs to be reinvented by us.

A big part of education is taking notes properly. Scholarly reading without taking notes is useless.
I think you should probably note something new you learned down right away. As quickly as possible. That way you won't lose it.

The Guerrila Open Access Manifesto is awesome and I think we should share it like wildfire and enforce it. This documentary helped me understand Aaron Swartz and learn about the ongoing fight for free access to information.
This short blogpost about open access summarizes it nicely: https://broman.dev/blog/knowledge-should-be-free.html

https://openstax.org/ offers free, high-quality textbooks on various subjects. Find community created books (Openstax CNX) on https://archive.org/details/@openstax-staxly)

You can generally find most books over on Anna's archive.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ seems to offer a lot of papers and issues published in a large number of publications, but you can probably find these on the general websites as well.

See https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html on why using flashcard software like Anki is useful.

Summary of the 20 SuperMemo rules on formulating knowledge when learning:

1. Do not learn if you do not understand
2. Learn before you memorize - build the picture of the whole before you dismember it into simple items in SuperMemo. If the whole shows holes, review it again!
3. Build upon the basics - never jump both feet into a complex manual because you may never see the end. Well remembered basics will help the remaining knowledge easily fit in
4. Stick to the minimum information principle - if you continue forgetting an item, try to make it as simple as possible. If it does not help, see the remaining rules (cloze deletion, graphics, mnemonic techniques, converting sets into enumerations, etc.)
5. Cloze deletion is easy and effective - completing a deleted word or phrase is not only an effective way of learning. Most of all, it greatly speeds up formulating knowledge and is highly recommended for beginners
6. Use imagery - a picture is worth a thousand words
7. Use mnemonic techniques - read about peg lists and mind maps. Study the books by Tony Buzan. Learn how to convert memories into funny pictures. You won't have problems with phone numbers and complex figures
8. Graphic deletion is as good as cloze deletion - obstructing parts of a picture is great for learning anatomy, geography and more
9. Avoid sets - larger sets are virtually un-memorizable unless you convert them into enumerations!
10. Avoid enumerations - enumerations are also hard to remember but can be dealt with using cloze deletion
11. Combat interference - even the simplest items can be completely intractable if they are similar to other items. Use examples, context cues, vivid illustrations, refer to emotions, and to your personal life
12. Optimize wording - like you reduce mathematical equations, you can reduce complex sentences into smart, compact and enjoyable maxims
13. Refer to other memories - building memories on other memories generates a coherent and hermetic structure that forgetting is less likely to affect. Build upon the basics and use planned redundancy to fill in the gaps
14. Personalize and provide examples - personalization might be the most effective way of building upon other memories. Your personal life is a gold mine of facts and events to refer to. As long as you build a collection for yourself, use personalization richly to build upon well established memories
15. Rely on emotional states - emotions are related to memories. If you learn a fact in the sate of sadness, you are more likely to recall it if when you are sad. Some memories can induce emotions and help you employ this property of the brain in remembering
16. Context cues simplify wording - providing context is a way of simplifying memories, building upon earlier knowledge and avoiding interference
17. Redundancy does not contradict minimum information principle - some forms of redundancy are welcome. There is little harm in memorizing the same fact as viewed from different angles. Passive and active approach is particularly practicable in learning word-pairs. Memorizing derivation steps in problem solving is a way towards boosting your intellectual powers!
18. Provide sources - sources help you manage the learning process, updating your knowledge, judging its reliability, or importance
19. Provide date stamping - time stamping is useful for volatile knowledge that changes in time
20. Prioritize - effective learning is all about prioritizing.
    • In incremental reading you can start from badly formulated knowledge and improve its shape as you proceed with learning (in proportion to the cost of inappropriate formulation)
    • If need be, you can review pieces of knowledge again, split it into parts, reformulate, reprioritize, or delete.

• https://learn-anything.xyz/c → This promises to be a replacement for universities, offering a better experience. In the past it was kind of paywalled (easily bypassed with a filter) but now it seems like it's free.
• From A To RemZi: The Case for Free Online Books (FOBs): Experiences with “Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces”
• Ten Brighter Ideas? An Explorable Explanation
• Working Notes on Chalktalk
• (Challktalk) Ken Perlin on the mind field of virtual and future reality @ Gamelier - YouTube
• Critical Thinking