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Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?

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Re: Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?

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I have an RSS opml of about one thousand blogs that I follow. Actually a majority of them are RSS feeds of people who have posted here in hacker news.

I also like to try to read research papers every now and then. On weekends I'll print one out and sit with a french press and pen and read through it, and it's a nice time. (Today I'm reading "Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all cause mortality" by Aune et. al 2017)

Re: Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?

#7
Blogs are significantly more up to date with most technical topics. Books focused on specific technologies by contrast go out of date as soon as they are published. For example: https://simonwillison.net/ is HN's favorite blog this year.

Evergreen computer science topics don't go out of date though. (example of evergreen: https://dataintensive.net/)