theDarkness
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- Jul 11, 2012
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You can read as a tourist or you can read as a doer.
Reading as a tourist is better than nothing. Better than watching Spongebob. And it can be very useful if you are completely new to a thing and you just want to get acclimated. I did a lot of tourist-reading after reading TMF , just because it all seemed so new and overwhelming. And as just a hobby tourist-reading is hard to beat. It's fun.
But at some level you want your reading to be part of a larger process of learning new skills and doing things you hadn't before. This may involve beginning to use books as more like guide or references than things you read straight through like a novel. I read the first third of The Lean Startup and then tossed it on the floor and started my business. I'll finish it at some point, but right now I'm still working on just implementing some of the principles mentioned in that first part of the book. I have a bunch of bookmarked webpages and blog posts I return to a lot. Much of the reading in this mode comes on an as-needed basis. It should all be considered as a pit-stop on the way to action. Get what you need and then go, go, go.
Reading as a tourist is better than nothing. Better than watching Spongebob. And it can be very useful if you are completely new to a thing and you just want to get acclimated. I did a lot of tourist-reading after reading TMF , just because it all seemed so new and overwhelming. And as just a hobby tourist-reading is hard to beat. It's fun.
But at some level you want your reading to be part of a larger process of learning new skills and doing things you hadn't before. This may involve beginning to use books as more like guide or references than things you read straight through like a novel. I read the first third of The Lean Startup and then tossed it on the floor and started my business. I'll finish it at some point, but right now I'm still working on just implementing some of the principles mentioned in that first part of the book. I have a bunch of bookmarked webpages and blog posts I return to a lot. Much of the reading in this mode comes on an as-needed basis. It should all be considered as a pit-stop on the way to action. Get what you need and then go, go, go.
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