Building an Antilibrary: The Power of Unread Books

This essay by Andrew Hui called Dreams of the Universal Library is beautiful and explores ideas such as what constitutes as knowledge, and how to turn data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. 

But there's a fundamental difference between searching a universe of documents created by strangers and searching your own personal library. When you're freewheeling through ideas that you yourself have collated -- particularly when you'd long ago forgotten about them -- there's something about the experience that seems uncannily like freewheeling ... See more

In my view, we should each invest a few hours a week in reading research that ostensibly has nothing to do with our day jobs, in a setting that has nothing in common with our regular workspaces. This kind of structured serendipity just might help us become more creative, and I doubt that it can hurt.