{"id":4181,"date":"2019-11-21T20:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2019-11-21T21:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:07:01","slug":"many-books-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/many-books-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many books, not enough time"},"content":{"rendered":"

TL;DR<\/h2>\n

How about instead of just adding more new books to our read<\/code> pile (and even more to the never-ending to-read<\/code> pile), we revisit our list of the books that we’ve read and in 2020 we not just re-read them, but study them?<\/p>\n

!TL;DR<\/h2>\n

Quotes are great<\/h3>\n

\n \u201cThe greatest satisfaction comes from mastering something that is truly difficult.\u201d
\n ~ Abraham Maslow\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A positive fact<\/h3>\n

All of us are readers in this group, and we had to go through a lot of content to find the one that\u2019s valuable. We can think of that as a process of getting the signal from the noise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A sad fact<\/h3>\n

Even though we read a lot of books (and we may be looking into techniques to increase that number), we are not oblivious to the fact that there are just too many books and not enough time<\/strong>. Moreover so, we realize that after a certain amount of books that we’ve read in a certain category, the new ones are just not yielding the same ROI<\/strong> (I<\/strong> being the ever so slightly limited time). Most of them feel like they\u2019re rehashing the ideas and are just geared toward the \u2018current\u2019 generation.<\/p>\n

A little bit of math<\/h3>\n

Consider for a moment that we read 60 books per year (A lot, right? Well, here’s the math behind reading 30 in a year<\/a><\/em>). What if, in 2020, instead of just adding new books to the read pile, we set a goal only to read 30 (half of that, so adjust your math accordingly, please). But with a twist.<\/p>\n

The twist and the ?<\/h3>\n

What if we revisit all the books that we\u2019ve read in our career so far and commit to not only re-reading them in 2020, but actually studying them<\/strong>? So that we won\u2019t just know \u2018oh, yeah, I read that somewhere in the XYZ book,\u2019 but instead we\u2019ll have the actual book in RAM if you will (with UPS, of course). Sure, I\u2019d reserve a slot for 10 new ones just in case \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

For added points, please proceed here<\/h3>\n

I\u2019d love to hear what you think about the idea presented above \ud83d\ude4f. And also, I\u2019d like to learn what were the signal vs. noise<\/code> books in your career so far? To not make this into some long list, let\u2019s cap it at five books.<\/p>\n

So how about you, mister?<\/h3>\n

OK, OK, thought I\u2019d get away with it \ud83d\ude0e, here\u2019s my entry:<\/p>\n