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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.
At the same time I'm looking forward to complimenting it with another go at Silvanus P. Thompson's Calculus Made Easy so I can hopefully get a better understanding of the models described in the fortran book. (Been working through Khan Academy material in the meantime as a prelude...)
I've also got the latest installments in Sammy Harkham's Crickets series and Sam Sharpe & Peach S Goodrich's Viewotron series on deck which I've been saving as a treat. They're both published so infrequently I wanted to save them for some time can sprawl into my reading.
I bought 4A and 4B yesterday. I'll first dip into them at random, purely for pleasure. Then pick a couple of sections to work through more seriously.
https://www.amazon.com/Edmund-Morriss-Theodore-Roosevelt-Tri...
The Haskell Wikibook.
More Ursula K. Le Guin.
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.
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.
A friend suggested trying to read 3 days into a 1 week vacation. I couldn’t.
And from that moment I realized it was a muscle like anything else. Consuming media that requires active participation and work, that you are not rewarded for (professional learning) takes practice.
I come home tired most days but I still manage to crank out time to read.
Maybe it won’t work for you the way it worked for me, but give it a try. You might be surprised.
- Pale Fire, Nabokov
- Speaker for the Dead - I thought the first book was just ok, but praise for the sequel made me interested
- House Of Leaves
- Godel Escher Bach