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Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by fzil »

neontomo wrote: post #38

I struggle to stay interested in one book until the end because many books that are designed to teach you something have made their point in the first chapter and then spend the rest of the book hammering it in. Currently been reading Make It Stick for a year and I'm probably going to drop it because it's not that interesting. Also have these opened: - The Hobbit - A Philosophy of Software Design - Bhagavad Gita

yeah, I couldn't stick with Make it Stick either. Idk, something about the book just made it feel like a chore.

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by newswasboring »

Just got finished reading "What the Dormouse Said", not a phenomenal read due to the density of characters but definitely worth it for the exploration of early thought on computers. I had never read extensively about the work of Englebart and the Augment project and it was fascinating to see things we take for granted about human computer interaction slowly form amongst a community. I feel like I had lost touch with the idea of computers as extensions of human brains. It's a small shift in thinking, but not thinking of a computer as a separate thing opens up completely novel thought patterns.

On a lighter note I was expecting a lot more drugs than politics in this book. Oh well, we should appreciate things for what they are and what we want them to be.

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