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How to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online
- Anon84 17y agoReading Hacker News?
- euroclydon 17y agoThose resources won't really help you to learn much! Do something that requires an attention span! I have started reading SICP when I have a free hour to goof off. I also have it bookmarked on my phone. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html I recently switched from coffee to green tea, and I am amazed at how much more information I can absorb, because my attention span is longer. I actually think it's analogous to the NFL, where rookies aren't any good until "the game slows down for them", well live has slowed down for me!
- ibsulon 17y agoPerhaps you were drinking too much caffeine at once?
- tocomment 17y agoor just too much caffeine. Green tea has less than coffee.
- mattyb 17y agoI have a soft spot for books that I can read on my BlackBerry. SICP, The Art of Unix Programming, Software Engineering for Internet Applications, SQL for Web Nerds, Practical Common Lisp, Dive Into Python, now Simply Scheme. If only the Handbook of Applied Cryptography had their chapters in HTML.
- mannicken 17y agoI started watching SICP lectures, they're much easier to absorb than book :)
- Nosferax 17y agoBy not reading mentalfloss.
- HalcyonMuse 17y agoI guess I just assumed that the title wasn't "How to Learn Useful Stuff While Procrastinating Online" due to negligence. But no. If that was the title, it would be fraudulent advertising.