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"Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It's the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it." - John Graham
The takeaways are the takeaways, including how fast one can learn and adapt.
The especially salient point is that book learning and planning are all well and good, the reality of trying something in the real world is a practical teacher.
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Text to speech? I wish Apple would allow me to do that with my ebooks.
Have you tried VoiceOver? On iOS, turn it on by triple-clicking the Home button, then two-fingered swipe downward to start speaking continuously until the end of the book.
As Micael (the author) says "So nowadays I don't read books and articles about entrepreneurship because I think I need the knowledge to succeed, but merely for inspiration or because I sometimes feel curious about some company or person."
This paragraph really resonates with me "The knowledge you need to have for your startup to succeed is in general not written in books or articles. The knowledge you need will be so specific to your particular company, with your particular employees, in your particular industry, in this particular time, with your particular product, with your particular goal and vision – that you need to generate that knowledge yourself by trying stuff out and iterating."
How valuable any given bit is, whether it comes from experience or reading, is entirely subjective based on the entirety of the blended data set, my state of mind, the needs of my core project at any given moment in time and my desired outcome.
Plus, as Amanda Palmer said, "We can only connect the dots that we collect," so if books allow us to collect more or better dots faster, sometimes faster than experience, why not add them to the mix?
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Text to speech? I wish Apple would allow me to do that with my ebooks.
Have you tried VoiceOver? On iOS, turn it on by triple-clicking the Home button, then two-fingered swipe downward to start speaking continuously until the end of the book.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried VoiceOver? On iOS, turn it on by triple-clicking the Home button, then two-fingered swipe downward to start speaking continuously until the end of the book.
hmmm, On iOS7 tripleclick results to all apps showing an overview. Not voiceover...
You could check in Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut.
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hmmm, On iOS7 tripleclick results to all apps showing an overview. Not voiceover...
Perhaps the triple-click shortcut is turned off for some reason, though a quick search indicated that it was on by default in iOS 6 and 7. Normally double-click is enough to show all running apps. You could check in Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut.