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If I read every 'must read' book I'd never have any time to actually do the thing in question!
by highace 15y ago
If I read every 'must read' book I'd never have any time to actually do the thing in question!
- nhebb 15y agoI was thinking the same thing, which in turn reminded me of the ultimate productivity blog (linked from Coding Horror): http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/ http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
- mhd 15y agoSkip over the anecdotes, then most self-help business books are about 50 pages of text…
- larsberg 15y agoAnd the points they make are even less than that. I've worked places with a subscription to get abstract: http://www.getabstract.com/ http://www.getabstract.com/ Very nice; you can just subscribe to the business books feeds, read the 3-page PDF summaries, and decide if you care to read any deeper.
- mhd 15y agoI really liked Kindle's samples in this regard. Most of it is a few pages from the introduction, and most of the time that's very representative for the those types of books. If it starts with a recollection of the author's childhood or the experiences of a client, you can ditch it most of the time…