Metadata
- Author: Ludicity
- Full Title:: You Must Read at Least One Book to Ride
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Refusing To Stand On The Shoulders Of Giants,
- URL:: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-book-to-ride/
- Finished date:: 2024-02-15
Highlights
Then there are engineers (and people in every profession) who never try for the entirety of their careers, and this is the majority of every profession (View Highlight)
Something about having your Skin In The Game is that your relationship with sleepwalkers changes. That is, instead of resenting them, you’re glad that they’re so bad because they give you people to beat without having to dedicate your entire life to perfect performance. (View Highlight)
Reading one book typically gets you to the point where you can do things like “add new functionality to this React app without incurring technical debt (View Highlight)
Reading multiple books is how you get good enough to compete for the absolute highest-paid jobs out there, where the fact you can do the above in a day instead of a week matters, and in the latter case you’re simply going to have to read N+1 books, where N is whatever your competition is reading. It’s an arms race. But because Deloitte and the average developer don’t read any books, they’re just easy pickings (View Highlight)
Heck, you could probably eliminate almost all dud candidates during technical interviews by asking what their favourite tech book is, then only talking to candidates where you know enough to check if they’ve read that book (View Highlight)
how do you know what books to read? (View Highlight)
what I actually want to say is do not under any circumstances encourage people to read books, it’s easy money for the rest of us (View Highlight)