It took me a full Ph.D. to get *marginally* more comfortable skipping chapters in technical books.
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I don't mean that as, "I earned a PhD so now it's safe to skip around." I mean it as in, "I'm weird and foolishly think that by skipping around I'll miss something vital, even though the set of all books relative to my time on Earth is infinite, so not skipping is just a ritual."
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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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