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by redelbee 6y ago
I just finished reading “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear” by Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) and she brought up a related and interesting idea I can paraphrase: In midlife we’re concerned with status and our outward appea
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by redelbee 6y ago
I’m glad you found an alternative route! I’m in a mid-sized Midwestern city and drivers just don’t get it. When I lived in Austin I felt much safer even with way more traffic, mostly because the drivers were more aware because there were pl
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by redelbee 6y ago
When I commute to work by bicycle I have to deal with a mile or so long stretch of sharrows. It is by far the worst and most dangerous part of my ride. They were put in place instead of the non-separated bike lane in the rest of downtown to
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by redelbee 6y ago
Oh I’m sad (and totally unsurprised) to hear that. I wonder if there will ever be an exodus from Austin similar in scope to the influx of the past decade. If I could time travel I would definitely visit Austin through the years to see how i
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by redelbee 6y ago
>I love biking/walking around the Oracle campus area because they made a bike path and the area is safer than it was before. That general area of the Town Lake trail was always my starting point for runs. My favorite “section” was d
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by redelbee 6y ago
This is the first I’ve heard about blinkist. I’ll check it out, thank you
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by redelbee 6y ago
I hadn’t thought about using reviews in this way before. Do you find the aggregate review numbers to be helpful on Goodreads? I find that most books I’m interested in have seemingly artificially high ratings or very few ratings.
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by redelbee 6y ago
I agree about counting and knowledge, which was part of the reason I wanted to see how other people think about it. I’ve always read a lot and probably always will, so now it’s all about optimizing what I read. I hadn’t heard of Great Books
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by redelbee 6y ago
My Goodreads is intimidating because of the same instinct to add everything that seems even remotely interesting. I hadn’t thought of choosing from that list more systematically though so I might have to do that. Maybe a random number gener
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by redelbee 6y ago
Oh wow I never would have thought of doing it this way. I definitely choose books for their covers at times, but this makes way more logical sense. Although I do feel a good cover is a decent signal because it’s nontrivial to get that right
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by redelbee 6y ago
Reading isn’t a part of my job, unless you count being well-informed or well-read part of any job. I am self employed but not in a 4-hour workweek kind of way (I enjoyed that book way more than I expected and only read it at the urging of a
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by redelbee 6y ago
I love sive.rs/book but I’m mostly through everything with high recommendation numbers. I do check back periodically to see what’s new though
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by redelbee 6y ago
I read both ebook/physical books and audiobooks, which has increased my yearly count from about 60 or 70 to where I am now. And I’m a fast reader, though I don’t “skim” or anything like that. Your process seems almost identical to mine
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by redelbee 6y ago
I love browsing libraries (and bookshops) but I haven’t been able to go as much this year because of pandemic-related reasons. I will definitely be going more often once things have calmed down though!
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by redelbee 6y ago
This is a good insight, and I sometimes worry I am just optimizing for quantity instead of quality. That said, how would you pick the “best 100 books” to reread?I also tend to reread things that I enjoyed in the past but it seems like there
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by redelbee 6y ago
Oh this is great, reading lists are super helpful. How do you decide which courses to watch though? I feel like I might have the same problem there.
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Ask HN: How do you decide what books to read?
28 points by redelbee 6y ago|54 comments
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by redelbee 6y ago
I have time for a solid sleep schedule, lots of exercise, work, and at least three other hobbies (bicycles, metalworking, and skateboarding) so I think so! Fiction recommendations: - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This book absolutely w
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by redelbee 6y ago
I’ve read 121 books this year, and I read 129 last year. I’ll probably meet or exceed that number this year. Generally I’m reading at least two books at a time, one non-fiction and one fiction. I tend to listen to the non-fiction books and
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by redelbee 6y ago
I also read Range and I too was a bit underwhelmed. I took it as a sign that I’ve read too much in this area already as much of the book was familiar. It would probably be a good introduction for those who haven’t read about the topic befor
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by redelbee 6y ago
My summary of this article in terms of good and evil: - Kiss My Keto unsuccessfully tries to set up an affiliate program that doesn’t eat too much margin and is still equitable to the affiliates (I believe they are doing their best to be a
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by redelbee 6y ago
This reminds me of my first unsuccessful job interview. I came away from it with totally unexpected lessons about writing and life. I had just moved across the country after leaving my job at a newspaper. The job posting was for a copy edit
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by redelbee 6y ago
This makes total sense and I think you’re onto something with the limited lines/finishes/fabrics for the consumer market in the future. I really appreciate you taking the time to list those companies and I’m definitely going to lo
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by redelbee 6y ago
Agreed! I seem to remember a company that was hacking up MacBooks to make them into touch screens at one point and I totally thought that was the inevitable future we’d be living in. Maybe it’s still in the future, but I’m tired of waiting.
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by redelbee 6y ago
That’s a good question. I use the iPad for some work (editing photos, email, etc) but mostly I use it for entertainment. I’m using it now for web browsing, I watch TV/movies on it as I don’t have a TV and don’t always want to use my pr
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by redelbee 6y ago
Oh wow this is great, thank you! I hadn’t heard the T-Rex description before. It perfectly captures the look of every standing desk I’ve seen. It’s amazing how much the four legs changes the look and feel of the desk. Since you seem to be i
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by redelbee 6y ago
I have an iPad Pro with keyboard and a 15-inch MacBook Pro I got when my previous MacBook Air couldn’t handle the video editing I was dabbling in. I desperately want one machine (and probably in the iPad form factor) but I don’t know if App
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by redelbee 6y ago
This is neat and makes me want to take a router to my existing standing desk to organize cables in a similar fashion. That said I think a focus on the entire desk might be a difficult sell. I’m not going to replace my existing desk with thi
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by redelbee 6y ago
I have two journalism degrees and I only worked in the “media” for a year at a newspaper before transitioning to advertising/marketing for a decade. Now I own a small business in my hometown. The business of journalism has much to do w
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by redelbee 6y ago
Serious questions for people who work on this kind of research or who have done so in the past: Why do we need this kind of research? Don’t we already have enough to tell us that exercising is good, and that exercising more is probably bett

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