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I am usually reading 3-5 books at a time but I only read computer/math books now a days. I wonder if the benefits that the author and other people mention appl
by latenightcoding 10y ago
I am usually reading 3-5 books at a time but I only read computer/math books now a days.
I wonder if the benefits that the author and other people mention apply to technical books. Maybe I should pick up a fiction book or finally start reading "Gödel, Escher, Bach" again (which has been sitting on my shelf for too long).
- drvdevd 10y agoI find that reading fiction improves my overall desire and ability to read in general - thus improving my ability to take in technical content as well.
- kornakiewicz 10y agoI think and there's a plenty of technical books, which are fun and/or philosophical at the same time. I still remember one of most poetic phrases I read was a comment to a proof in mathematical textbook. It was in Polish and translation is something like that: "One probably has no soul, who - after reading this proof - can be totally free from a delicate thrill, which decent men used to feel after seeing something really beautiful."
- flattone 10y agoHave started reading GEB so a few times.