The best things and stuff of 2014
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But seriously, I can't fathom myself doing half the stuff being listed in the post in a year.
1) Aim for one book a month or one book every two weeks. Divide the number of pages by the days in your chosen time frame and commit at all costs to reading your set number of daily pages.
2) Take opportunities like going to the toilet, catching the train, being driven somewhere, waiting for food to cook and the 20 minutes before you sleep for the night to get some pages read. 3) Get an ebook version and listen to this while shopping, walking the dog, driving to work or any other redundant time where holding a book is not possible.
Getting a couple of pages in here and there every day adds up very quickly and before you know it, it's become a habit. I do stress though that you must be really interested in the content of the book or the motivation just dips and if your forcing yourself to read through it anyway, the information doesn't sink in.
The thought of ever finishing it at all is beginning to feel satisfying.
I've given considerable thought to taking a 3-month sabbatical to focus on nothing but reading.
The reason given is that it prevents you from accidentally rereading a line or skipping over one or changing lines midsentence.
This seems like one of those gimmicky approaches, and I remember being sold on this approach rather than being entirely convinced. Have you seen this before?
I hope he reads both these books consecutively. These two books are worlds apart but both equally excellent. It would be an interesting contrast.
As someone working in ASIC design and verification, that code is not a good read IMO. I am stunned it even synthesized. The use of "initial" and "task" is not generally for describing hardware.
" Number of books written: 0 "
LE: don't waste time downvoting people, I was obviously absurding.
There's a great zen adage: Master Sui was sitting with two boys who had recently entered his abbey, Won, and Feng. They had just recently been over taken by a robber while performing an errand for the abbey.
Master Sui asked Won what he had learned from the experience: "I'll never trust anyone ever again!" said Won.
Master Sui asked Won to go, and never to return.
Master Sui asked Feng what he had learned from the experience: "I've learned to exercise caution around those I do not know".
Master Sui said "You may stay Feng. Does a carpenter mistrust all nails because one bends?"
Here, we have a wealth of information about the poster. He writes, reads, and blogs about Computer Science. Sure some of his opinions may turn out to be a bent nail, and because of that you should always exercise some caution while reading anyones views. But you'll gain far more by reading, examining, and adding (and subtracting) to (and from) your worldview, in my opinion at least, then you will by spending that energy worrying about trust worthiness. (Generally you'll find out whether or not a source is trustworthy by examining the views espoused for yourself, again, in my opinion. I'm a software engineer with a bit more than a year of professional software development experience, in the process of obtaining a masters, with degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics. At this point, while I am no expert, I can often at least find information to be skeptical of.)