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Seeing this reminds me of something I'm not proud of. I've done effectively no reading this year. At least not by my normal standards. I generally read between
by mindcrime 2y ago
Seeing this reminds me of something I'm not proud of. I've done effectively no reading this year. At least not by my normal standards.
I generally read between 30-50 books a year (mix of fiction and non-fiction). But this year I knew my focus was going to be more on research, reading papers, writing code, etc. so I set my reading goal lower than normal (I usually set it to like 75, knowing that that's a bit aspirational). This year? I set it to like, 30. And I won't come close to hitting that. Right now I'm at 7 books for the year. So I don't have a big sample set to choose from. :-(
That said...
Of what I did read, a couple were pretty good:
Non-fiction:
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks- Scott J. Shapiro
Readings in Agents - Huhns, Singh (eds)
Programming Multi-Agent Systems in AgentSpeak using Jason - Bordini, Hubner, & Wooldridge
Fiction:
In Too Deep (Jack Reacher, #29) - Lee Child
- edanm 2y agoYou know, I misread your opening sentence at first and thought you said you are proud of this. And I gotta say, I've considered a few times lowering my "target" books read per year, to make more time for studying, reading articles, etc. And I totally thought that's what you were doing since you mentioned reading papers, research etc. And I was super proud on your behalf for doing that. So anyway, just popping in to say that maybe there's a bright side to lowering your goal.
- mindcrime 2y agoYeah, no doubt. I mean, don't get me wrong: I'm proud of the work I've done this year in total. I'm just not pointedly proud of having to say "I've only read 7 books this year", especially in light of my traditional norms in that regard.