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Reading Books

  • get most value out of books quickly 1
    • Forward. Skip - Ch 1. Author's credentials. Skip
    • Ch 2. The IDEA . Carefully read it
    • Ch 3+. Example. Stop reading when no value added to help the understanding.
  • Don't be interested in shortcuts (best practices) without understanding them. Instead, focus on: 2
    1. What problem is it trying to solve?
    2. How does it work? (NOT how do I configure it)
    3. Why does it work the way it does?
  • You have to invest a large amount of time before getting the benefits.2

Footnotes​

Footnotes​

  1. Productivity Hack: Read One Chapter of a Book to Get 90% of the Value, Zotero ↩

  2. More on Reading and Writing Books « ipSpace.net blog, Zotero ↩ ↩2