reading

I would consider myself to be a sporadic reader. Anytime I'm infatuated by a topic, I might speed read a couple of articles and allocate a few bed-time books to put me to sleep. I also might just drop the book as quickly as I picked it up (or defer it).

Prefer E-books, for they allow me to efficiently carry around my currently active reads and are discrete. I pull out my phone and start swiping, you don't know if I'm reading or scrolling or swiping.

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With Gen AI making technicalities easily available in a short time span, consider picking up distilled texts targetted towards acquiring wisdom rather than knowledge. A quicker documentation overview followed by a dense refactor of a technical text can allow you to get started with the more intricate technologies fairly quickly.

The trick is asking extremely dumb questions over the duration of your read and never skipping hurdles with assumptions.

Use the LLMs to fill in the gaps in your understand with iterative questions targeted towards a specific minor objective anytime you encounter an unknown abstraction.

Stand your ground until you can't move on.

Read one advanced book and note down your distilled comprehensions along the way.

This way you'll end up grasping a large amount of technical wisdom in a very short span of time. The relative returns are just as intense as the density of your efforts.

Instead of structuring your notes via subheadings. consider orienting them towards solving specific pointed questions.