It took me a full Ph.D. to get *marginally* more comfortable skipping chapters in technical books.
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I feel *compelled* to read any given shit from the beginning and sequentially and without skipping even a single fucking line. For someone who gets shat on often enough by TheSystem for not conforming THIS needed to be the pointless hill that my brain chose to die conforming to.
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That's exactly how I felt (and still mostly feel.)
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Getting comfortable going aggressively out of order is one of my most rewarding activities. But also continuously hard and second guessing inducing. Also I sincerely apologize for being an ass face that one time unrelated to this tweet. I’m just a tweep.
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Related to this: I've thought about reading a text book backwards once, just to see what it's like. I've never done it. ...But I've thought about it.
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I'm 52 and never going to get a PhD now so I read what I want. Lots more papers, lots fewer books it turns out.
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Well, of course you'll miss something important. I can't live with that hanging over me!
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Im too much a perfectionist. So afraid I will miss something that I re-read one page before going to the next.
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