With regard to almost any topic, you're 3-5 books away from having a productive conversation with a foremost expert and quite possibly teaching him or her something new. And this compounds — forever
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Another thing: plenty of "good" books are just... bad. They won't play with you. They're so concerned about giving you the wrong idea that they'll hardly give you any ideas at all. I think you should almost always just move on. Maybe go for something somebody'll try to get burned
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How to get to those 3-5 books? Hit and trial?
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Google a book on a subject and pick the most recent book published by a reputable publisher. Then use its endnotes/bibliography to pick the next book. Rinse and repeat.
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How do you filter out bad,hyped, bestseller books? One way IMO is reading anti-fragile books. Another way, to look for solid criticisms of a book (inaccuracies, cherry picking, author credibility). Googling helps here. Of course, then one has to evaluate the criticism too.
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Best example of a hyped up book which I avoided reading : Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep recommended by Bill Gates, thanks to A+ work by
@alexeyguzey https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ … https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/18/is-matthew-walkers-why-we-sleep-riddled-with-scientific-and-factual-errors/ …
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Excellent advise!!! But, how does one choose a great book to have a Bonnie and Clyde-type relation with them?
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Are pop nonfiction and textbooks almost two different types of media in this respect? Takes a lot more to engage when there's no prompts to experiment or produce something, along with a validation of that thing? Though pop-econ books may straddle both?
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Any chance you're willing to share 3 (or more) recommended non-fiction books? I know I'm a rando but I legitimately promise to read at least one of them.
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I finally started craving non fiction over the last year or two, and I'm struggling to grapple with knowing most books suck, many have an agenda, and I have finite time to invest in reading (though I'm trying to dial up that amount)
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