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This is why I say right now books are across the board a better idea than blogposts or videos, but I'm not 100% certain that can't change? Some kind of Wikipedia esque filter could perhaps accelerate this?
I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas, but the publisher had the author pad it out to X00 pages because that's what makes their business model make sense. I haven't fully sworn off blogs, but I will skim anything brought to my attention on Medium, a corporate site, or from search results. My default assumption for these is that I'm reading content marketing and not an…
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Every medium has its gold nuggets. A lot of podcasts are garbage, even amongst the ones with interesting topics -- nothing more than a few bros hanging out and improvising on a topic with a little preparation. There are some very high quality podcasts in the mix, and the same is true of non-fiction books.
One podcast I really like is The Art of Manliness podcast [0]. I learn about a lot of interesting topics and get good book recommendations from it. All episodes are interviews with book authors regarding a specific book. Brett, the interviewer, seems to be very well prepared for the questions and the conversation has always a good pace with every episode mostly under 50 minutes. [0] https://www.artofmanliness.com/pod…
The first does a lot of research for every episode, and the second has ~30 years of knowledge about markets, trading, and goes into such depth in his episodes that it's hard to find equivalent level information elsewhere.
I also subscribed to Real Vision at some point, but I find that I simply don't have enough time to utilize all of the resources on there. One episode per week for each of the podcasts below is manageable though - to keep yourself up to date.
Interesting perspective. My experience so far is that I've come across very few blog posts, at least good-quality ones. I do agree that it's hard to find the good ones tho.
I also have this feeling that books are becoming stronger somehow. I'm big fan of books in general and I tend to read them cover-to-cover as they work best for me compared to video courses and other mediums.
Also because they are so shallow...
I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas, but the publisher had the author pad it out to X00 pages because that's what makes their business model make sense. I haven't fully sworn off blogs, but I will skim anything brought to my attention on Medium, a corporate site, or from search results. My default assumption for these is that I'm reading content marketing and not an…
> most information dense things these days. Followed by podcasts Funny you should say that. I can't bring myself to listen to any because of all of the filler and gimmicks.
I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas, but the publisher had the author pad it out to X00 pages because that's what makes their business model make sense. I haven't fully sworn off blogs, but I will skim anything brought to my attention on Medium, a corporate site, or from search results. My default assumption for these is that I'm reading content marketing and not an…
> I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas I feel like this is very true for topics that are extremely shallow, like programming language frameworks. Otherwise, I find that a good non-fiction book has no equal when it comes to transferring a nuanced mindset or base understanding from the author to the audience. A tutorial is nice for what it is, a way to quickly become a…
The amount of poor quality blogposts, in particular the volume of poor quality blogposts that are covert advertisements for something (a product, a book, the author's self image, the company they run, etc) just means you are very likely reading something that's a waste of time. I've adapted and find books to be more likely valuable information if not particularly fresh information.
But books have the same problem. Ten pages of information spread onto 300 pages to sell the copy.
Also, Books have chapter breaks and flow based on that, which "long-reads" articles don't match.
OP, do share which books you have been reading.
Posts like the Expert Beginner series [0] and anything ACOUP [1] I'll read and re-read. I keep a list of articles that have shaped my way of thinking. Most of what is on Medium et al can be discarded. Similarly, large amounts of books, mainly non-fiction, can be lobbed on the same pile. Many of which would have been better off as an article in the first place.
0 - https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
1 - https://acoup.blog/2022/12/02/collections-why-roman-egypt-wa...