Read the whole thing! It gives some great thoughts for how to keep focused in what you aim to read and how to let some things go, recognizing we all have limited time to spend on our reading. It's a lesson I forget all too often.
Do you have a stack of books, journals, manuals, articles, API docs, and blog printouts that you think you'll get to? That you think you need to read? Now, based on past experience, what are the odds you'll get to all of it? Half of it? Any of it?
So you let the stack of "things to read" pile up, then eventually when the pile gets to high you end up tossing half of it--or worse, moving it to a deeper "stuff to read someday stack. We have selective amnesia about what we'll ever get to, but mainly because most of us keep feeling like we have to keep up! Keep up with what?
You can't keep up. There is no way. And trying to keep up will probably just make you dumber. You can never be current on everything you think you should be.
My friend Gary has a t-shirt that eloquently states the dilemma we all face:
"So Many Books, So Little Time"Hattip 43Folders.
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