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Re: Ask HN: What are you looking forward to reading in 2023?

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Post by DanHulton »

shever73 wrote: post #4

A book store near us has an amazing January sale, so: Entertainment: Babel - An Arcane History by RF Kuang, Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick, and my usual re-read of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Non-fiction: Code (second edition), The Myth of Normal by Gabor & Daniel Mate

Code (second edition) is excellent, just excellent. I read the first edition when it came out and it helped me contextualize the entire chain of how computers work. I've gotten rusty on that over the years, and I'm really enjoying going back through that and freshening up.

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Post by chrisfrantz »

Getting back into sci-fi. Just finished the first book in the third body problem series. Also have earth unaware (Enders game prequel) and We are legion (we are bob) ready to go.

From a work perspective I just finished creative selection which was excellent.

Re: Ask HN: What are you looking forward to reading in 2023?

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Post by voidfunc »

Curious question, how do you folks find energy to read more text after spending hours a day reading code on a screen? I find my ability to concentrate on it totally shot.

I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.

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Post by nso95 »

voidfunc wrote: post #14

Curious question, how do you folks find energy to read more text after spending hours a day reading code on a screen? I find my ability to concentrate on it totally shot. I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.

Read in the morning? Read during lunch?

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Post by yodsanklai »

voidfunc wrote: post #14

Curious question, how do you folks find energy to read more text after spending hours a day reading code on a screen? I find my ability to concentrate on it totally shot. I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.

Audiobooks help a bit, at least for non-technical stuff.

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Post by cyberlurker »

voidfunc wrote: post #14

Curious question, how do you folks find energy to read more text after spending hours a day reading code on a screen? I find my ability to concentrate on it totally shot. I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.

Buy a small, popular book on a topic that interests you. A physical one. Dedicate ten minutes to it before bed. If you are like most people you will fall asleep but at least read a few paragraphs before you do. And it is better than blue light from your phone.

Some nights I cant fall asleep quick so I finish books that way.

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Post by frob »

Kindred by Octavia Butler.

I've been making my way through all of her other works for the past few years. I've read the Xenogenesis trilogy two or three times. Her works speak to me about the human condition in ways very few authors have been able to.

Kindred is her last remaining work I know of that that I have not read. I've been purposefully saving it for last and it feels like now is the time.

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Post by divan »

- Self-Determination Theory (SDT) by Deci and Ryan - finish (and probably re-read). It's a major theory in psychology on human motivation, and it's one of the worldview-shifting reads for me. It's as nerdy and scientific as you can get to the motivation research, and it applies virtually every sphere of human interaction - work, parenting, sports, relationships, education etc.

- The Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design - CLA is the the best sports coaching (and also quite nerdy) philosophy I've found so far. Unlike SDT it's mostly concerned about motor skill acquisition science.

- Collection of books on figure skating starting from 1880 - aside from purely historical value, they have incredible knowledge on how to perform figures (that's where name "figure skating" came from) - the art almost extinct nowadays. It's a foundation of this sport, but as international federation removed them from competitions, nobody learns or teaches it anymore, so we literally loosing the roots of the most important skill in figure skating (US and Canada are doing better than everyone else, you can still learn and pass tests in figures, but that's quite unique cases).

Re: Ask HN: What are you looking forward to reading in 2023?

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Post by WhiteBlueSkies »

voidfunc wrote: post #14

Curious question, how do you folks find energy to read more text after spending hours a day reading code on a screen? I find my ability to concentrate on it totally shot. I can't concentrate on a book by the time I'm done working. It's probably been a decade now since I read a book.

It's impossible if they do that they cut time for other more crucial things in the long term like meditation and exercising. You only get a limited amount of time in the day.

Becoming a super nerd is unnatural.

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