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No, I don’t buy tech books. They helped earlier in my career to build my intuition but now I find tech books too high level and repetitive to be useful. At this
by fnordpiglet 4y ago
No, I don’t buy tech books. They helped earlier in my career to build my intuition but now I find tech books too high level and repetitive to be useful. At this point my intuition is strong enough that I’ve seen and understood most concepts at some point and the nuances and syntactic changes are the most important. All this said I find ebooks very difficult for reference material. Indexing into them is clumsy for me - I assume it’s mostly inexperience - but indexing into a physical book is a pattern I’m well familiar with and do it effectively. I’ve raised my now 8 year old daughter with an ereader her whole life with the goal that she become so facile with the tool that when she goes to mars and they’re conserving delta-v she won’t be at a disadvantage.