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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 18

    I did something terrifying today. I decided I’d gotten everything I wanted out of a book and stopped reading it without finishing. Had never done that before, but life is too short.

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      2. Bardia‏ @thepericulum Sep 18
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Which book

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Sep 18
        Replying to @thepericulum

        Delivering happiness

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      2. Bret Taylor‏Verified account @btaylor Sep 18
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I do that with most non-fiction business books. I feel like 99% of them should be articles and I get the idea well before I am done with the book and find the extra length insufferable.

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      3. Nikhil Krishnan‏Verified account @nikillinit Sep 18
        Replying to @btaylor @AustenAllred

        watching talks or listening to podcasts from the author usually gets the main points across too

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      2. Zarin Ficklin‏ @zarinf Sep 18
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Great habit

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      3. Matt Sutherland‏ @mattsuthe Sep 18
        Replying to @zarinf @AustenAllred

        Zarin taught me to do that. I bet I do that on 10% of the books I read now

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      4. Jimmy  🎷 📈 😜‏ @itsjimmyw Sep 18
        Replying to @mattsuthe @zarinf @AustenAllred

        Oh man I do that all the time! I usually feel bad when I do it but a lot of times you can get 90% of the message in 50% of the book. The other 10% is just reiteration or various methods of implementation.

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      5. Zarin Ficklin‏ @zarinf Sep 18
        Replying to @itsjimmyw @mattsuthe @AustenAllred

        Definitely. I haven't finished a lot of my favorite non-fiction books.

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      2. EJ‏ @erikleejohnson Sep 18
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Two of the most freeing decisions are abandoning a book you don’t need to finish and closing a browser tab that you accept you’ll never get around to

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      1. Sourav Bhuyan‏ @hci_uxresearch Sep 18
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        If you find yourself in Las Vegas and have time, I’d be more than happy to schedule an hour long Zappos tour for you and your team.

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      1. Laurène Tran‏ @LaureneTran91 Sep 18
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Where does the "internal pressure" to finish a book come from? I've heard the same from several people. From parents who said, "finish your plate"? 🤔 I've always taken books as part of a never-ending flow of knowledge. The beginning or the end of a single book don't matter. 🌊

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      1. GraehamF  🔥Headcount.io 🤳 🆗‏ @GraehamF Sep 18
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        I tried this for the first time with a movie on Netflix recently, the Sci-fi seemed endlessly predictable, so skipped forward just to see how it concludes aaaaannd there was a pretty epic twist I wish I didn’t ruin. Life is short, but sometimes a story surprises you.

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      2. John Selzer‏ @JohnnyKirsch Sep 19
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I read incessantly and have learned to optimize. If a book does not capture me after 100 pages, I move on.

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      3. Jason Croft‏ @thejasoncroft Sep 19
        Replying to @JohnnyKirsch @AustenAllred

        Interesting...I only read books from page 101 on.

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      4. John Selzer‏ @JohnnyKirsch Sep 19
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      1. Geoffrey‏ @GarrulousGeoff Sep 19
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The first book I did this with was sapiens. It's like "I get it, these things are all part of a collective story we tell ourselves"

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      1. Paul McKellar‏Verified account @pm Sep 18
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        I’ve struggled with this. I keep reminding myself I know where the book is and can go back anytime. Like a city.

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      1. Molly Cain‏Verified account @MollyCain Sep 18
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        You gotta get out more! 👊🏻 I pick favorite chapters and revisit them all the time. The ONLY last chapter I went to was in @GaryJohnBishop’s book. That one is on repeat often.

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