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I had a listen to

's Embodiment Through Metaphors on

podcast. maintainersanonymous.com/metaphor/ My favorite takeaway was Maggies policy on books she is interested in but doesn't necessarily have the time to read.

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maintainersanonymous.comMA 12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through MetaphorsIs programming all digital or do we still have embodied roots? How does this affect how we write, teach, and learn code? Maggie Appleton joins Henry again to discuss everything metaphors (basically...

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omar

@OAcode

May 31, 2020

There is a strategic way to read books where you read - the table of contents - the introduction - skim the chapters that look important to you and - read the wikipedia article.

omar

@OAcode

May 31, 2020

You've now got what you need from the book. you're allowed to revisit it in the future if you need to AND you're allowed to now reference that book because life's too short 🤩

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😁 Strategtic "reading", lol. Gives you more time to properly read a shortlist of reallllly good ones. A lot of these techniques are from Mortimer Adler's "How to Read a Book" -

amazon.co.uk

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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