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I've been struggling to read nonfiction lately because so much of the content seems to be rehashed from other sources and leans heavily into persuasion of some greater point that gets bashed into your brain for 400 pages. It's like every book copied Malcolm Gladwell's style and it's too much for me. Am I just reading the wrong books?
I started the article and it touches an interesting topic, but I feel guilty finishing it because it’s within those wasteful 80% that it talks anout
It's not even rude it's just reality. This post is 1 in a billion and it isn't written very well nor does it really give you anything new. Putting it up next to historical philosophy it's definitely the potato chip of blog posts.
I completely disagree with the article’s core premise. I have read voraciously for my entire life since I was a little kid. Maybe much of it wasted, yet tidbits of knowledge I have gained over the years of reading come up constantly, and give me a bit of a leg up in conversations. HN is a big part of that, I can read about a wide array of technologies and processes and science that I normally would never encounter. A…
Reminds me of my own approach of RINORIN (read it now or read it never) which I've written about on HN before and led me to cancel all my RIL app subscriptions and create https://notado.app for my own personal needs instead.
I leave up articles for days hoping I'll read them, they pile up in my tabs— wasting so much memory. A lot of pc memory is wasted from just this on my end and I know I'm not the only one. It's interesting to think about how much wasted energy comes from tabs you're leaving open, hoping you'll get back to them one day.
"If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking, then don’t read it."
I almost never read for entertainment. Audiobooks are better because I can multi-task. And most everything could be considered "philosophical knowledge", so it doesn't filter stuff.
Of course, the rule doesn't apply to HackerNews ;)
I think this is a shallow article. First, just in time manufacturing has the noted weakness of having no slack or resilience in the system. This is part of why we experienced supply chain disruption during the pandemic. Second, it is assuming that knowledge that's not being 'used' right now in production environment is useless. For example, the way people avoid scam and snake-oil medicine is not by directly knowing e…
: Over the next 6 months, I read 30+ books on entrepreneurship, startups, marketing, “growth hacking,” and everything tangentially related I could find. And that doesn’t include the countless blog posts, articles, reddit threads, and whatever else I could get my hands on.
: A good plan, right? No, 80% of it was a waste of time, and most people make the same mistake with how they consume information every day.
Well, yes, because a great deal would be repeated even on tangential subjects as the authors aren't necessarily assuming you've read anything else on the topic.
and here:
: Getting in shape requires doing a few very simple things every day for months, not finding a new 13 minute 6 step workout every day so you can have a butt like today’s hot celebrity.
No, but it may take experimentation and reading to find a routine that works for you.
: You don’t need an entire site on lasting longer in bed or water fasting, you just need one or a couple really good articles.
Again, people vary. Why not cover them all, and the unforeseen events, instead of just outputting what worked in your particular case as if you're everyone?
Interestingly, this author follows that.
The problem with this is that having information that you don't necessarily need can actually help inspire you and increase creativity. If you always rely on having a specific question first, then you are limiting what you are exposed to. Not necessarily bad, but not good for more open-ended work.
Reminds me of my own approach of RINORIN (read it now or read it never) which I've written about on HN before and led me to cancel all my RIL app subscriptions and create https://notado.app for my own personal needs instead.
I leave up articles for days hoping I'll read them, they pile up in my tabs— wasting so much memory. A lot of pc memory is wasted from just this on my end and I know I'm not the only one. It's interesting to think about how much wasted energy comes from tabs you're leaving open, hoping you'll get back to them one day.
I can still remember when having more than one window in the browser was first possible and how cool we all thought it was.
"Tab hell" is hell on earth. It also makes you mentally ill.
> Over the next 6 months, I read 30+ books on entrepreneurship, startups, marketing, “growth hacking,” and everything tangentially related I could find. And that doesn’t include the countless blog posts, articles, reddit threads, and whatever else I could get my hands on. Self-help books in general (and entrepreneur porn books in particular) are notoriously thin on substance. It's no wonder that most of this was a wa…