Hi All, I was wondering that there is huge content online day by day for new things. You get all the long articles. I do not get so much time to read all. Most of time I am not able to completely understand the article.
It might help to others also So I just want to know:
1) How much you read per day or what are your reading habbits?
2) Most Important: If you not able to understand some article do you find dig them or just ignore the words or articles not able to understand? or what you do to understand like keep dictionary or search google?
3) How you read? Do you read continuously or there is some good hack?
Please give the advice. Thanks
text books/journal articles > books >> online articles.
I'll try to at least read 1 book per week, but on a good week I can get in up to 3. If the books are technical (i.e., programming) on a good week I can get 1 book read. If the books are mathematical (i.e., an algorithms textbook) I'm lucky if I can get 30-50 pages processed.
Audiobooks are the holy grail of passive consumption of content. They are so, so underrated.
IMO, the primary point of online articles is to get your finger on the pulse of what other people are up to. Other than that, they are similar to informational twinkies. Obviously there are exceptions: a Paul Graham article is certainly not an informational twinkie! But, by and large, reading something that somebody spent a year on (i.e., a book) tends to be a much better use of your time than reading something somebody spent 1-5 days on (i.e., an article).
Books go deep. Articles go broad. And textbooks are like "here is a broad summary of what the human race knows about a particular subject, at least up to about a decade or so ago."