Cultivating a genuine curiosity for the topic, for me that means be driven by my own questions in the first place. A side project could be a form of a question,

Cultivating a genuine curiosity for the topic, for me that means be driven by my own questions in the first place. A side project could be a form of a question, don't feel guilty for not finishing those projects, some aspects of the project will answer your question and the other uninteresting parts will be never finished, and it's fine. Also I used to read books linearly and the whole thing, recently I'm experimenting with these other ways from How to read a Book pdf[1] which I saw posted on HN[2] [1] http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209446