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I try to read every night before going to bed, and I'm trying to alternate between a technical book, and a pleasure book. I recently finished the whole lot of
by cx42net 6y ago
I try to read every night before going to bed, and I'm trying to alternate between a technical book, and a pleasure book.
I recently finished the whole lot of Foundation from Asimov, Zero to sold from Arvid Kahl and I'm currently reading "The wealth of Nations" from Adam Smith (Gotta admit, it hurts).
The motivation behind alternating between pleasure and technical is to try to increase my knowledge (even though I feel like I retain 1% of what I read), and to enjoy reading too (with the pleasure book)
On my to read next list, I have:
- High growth Handbook (Elad Gil) (Pleaure book)
- Utopia - Thomas More (Technical)
- Beyond the rift - Peter Watts (Pleasure)
- Manufacturing consent (Noam Chomsky) (Technical)
- Children of time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
- hadleycode 6y agoHow do you feel about reading before bed? I'm usually tired and just want to call it a night. I've found reading in the morning (during breakfast to be a different but sometimes more pleasurable experience).
- cx42net 6y agoI think I prefer. It helps me cut with the mental load of the day, and helps me go to sleep faster, even with a technical book (except on rare case when the book is about my work and get my gears going ;) ). Reading in the morning is impossible for me, I have to manage three young children go to school and I go to work right after that. I'm not an early bird too so it doesn't help ;) But I do believe that, in summer, going out early, reading a book outside when the sun has just started to get up, might be something amazing :)