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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.
Re-reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It's a yearly ritual.
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.
A good workout can be done in 30 minutes, though I prefer about 90 total (core/weights, rowing, running in the non-winter seasons, about 30 minutes of each). Dinner, about 30 minutes to cook and 30 minutes to eat, another 15 max to clean (mostly done while I'm cooking so really usually just 1 minute to put plates in the dishwasher). So that's 2.75, leaving me with 5.25 hours for spending time with my wife, wasting time on HN, reading, or working on side projects.
And that's just the weekdays. Weekends I get 9 hours back since I'm not commuting and working, though some of that goes to yard and house work so realistically call it 7 extra free hours as an average.
I created a blog just today to record my notes and thoughts on some of what I read, at https://chitramdasgupta.bearblog.dev/
The early signs of a company difficulties and financial fraud. (french)
Financial fraud handbook. (Joseph T. Wells)
You see the pattern.
Why ? I don't know. I'm kind of fascinated by that. The first time I had any interest of stock market related things was for "The smartest guys in the room" (Enron scandal) long before I read anything about stock markets itself.
I just recently said to someone : "I don't understand why someone would engage in a Ponzi scheme when it's mathematicaly a sure thing, in a finite world with a finite money supply, the scheme will collapse and he will get caught". He responded : "Because he hopes he will get away with it"...
His response of course adds up to my curiosity, because my question states first he can't mathematicaly get away with it. There is definitively a logic of thinking I don't get. But I'm kind of dumb when it's about people.
That being said both my parents had a kind of personnal take about reality and truthfulness... Differences betweens what people say or write about financial matters and financial reality tend to disappear within a relatively short period of time, as reality always catches up in that case.
This explains maybe that.
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.
Petzold is a hero, this talk (2014) is on that same 'back to basics' wavelength and it's just brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srWQdTGlnVg
For pleasure: getting into the rabbit hole of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (41 fantastic sci-fi / comedy novels)!
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.
