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shouldn't it be "the simplest possible thing that could work"?

Maybe true, but not true enough.

"If they're doing better than me it's their luck. If they're doing worse, it's their fault."

Clever framing of the authors own biases. I'd argue that for at least some of these, the opposite behaviour would be the true sabotage.

Looks like that's on codemirror framework? Any good resources you could share on wiring up custom language and view? I've managed to kinda get something working with lezer but the docs aren't great and I want to setup some pretty specific behaviour in the view with folding and validation etc.

It's unethical

Wish I read this before I named gonna my dog "Noise Maker".

also curious how you track your reading speed? any tools or process that works for you?

Hey I love your reading tracking, care to share your tracking / reading process? Any reason you use airtable over, say, Goodreads?

Oh I freaking LOVED the farseer trilogy. It gets better and better until a big wow. I did a lot of the booker+booker internationals in previous years but found them too hit and miss (mostly miss) for my tastes and decidedly switched to classics. Curious how they end up for you, I havent read this. I'm a big fan of Le Guin though, have you read her masterpiece short story "The ones who walk away from Omelas'"?

Would you recommend? Is it as good as the hype? I feel like it will be a long project.

What pace would you recommend? 40 pages a day seems more than reasonable?

That might be contributing. The Pevear translation is highly regarded. I researched which to read quite attentively, I found many who reported not being able to make progress via the Garnett translation found that the Pevear version opened the book up to them. I don't I like big dense works that feel like a chore, and I was really surprised how easy this read. I'm not sure what part you're up to, but it clearly picks up steam at a certain inflection point.

Fair enough, you're right he did originally tweet "Start on Monday, done by Sunday". But to be fair, in the very same tweet he wrote "I'll keep adjusting the list".

Besides all that, any good reads queued up for Jan?

I liked sapiens well enough. The middle is a bit of a slog, and I think he makes a few leaps in logic, but some cool ideas in there.

Yeah font size, but also just the work itself. If I'm reading epic fantasy I'll fly along. If I'm reading Wuthering Heights I'm crawling. I think it evens out.

I am so intimidated by that book. One day.

Nice one, I'll look into that next time, cheers.

How far do you get with Brothers Karamazov? And which translation? I could hardly put it down once it got rolling.

His original tweet he explicitly said "Start on Monday, done by Sunday"

You're saying rushing. But where is the rush here? An hour a half a day. That leaves more than enough time to stop and reflect and go for a walk and write notes.

I think that's more than reasonable to assume. I set a goal of a book a week, knowing that some will take longer some shorter. Same when planning projects for the year.

Why not assume the most reasonable thing? I think the dude even said in his initial tweet: "I'll keep adjusting the list".

But is an hour a half per day too fast? What pace would you accept? At least for me, I don't feel like I'm getting only shallow grasp.

I dunno, when doing roadmap planning at work we often simplify to make the planning easier, micro adjustments don't add that much value. A book a week is a simple plan to steer towards.

dang, when you put it like that...

What about, say, studying for an hour a half a day? Would that be not so different from binging any cultural product?

If there is a difference, then what is it?

Yeah I fall into mood reading too but I tend to regret it because I postpone the more intimidating part of the canon that I'd probably really enjoy. I'm finally doing Count of Monte Cristo atm after having it stare me down the last... 5 years? I don't know if I would have ever felt in the mood otherwise.

I guess like your gym analogy, some people can just work out when they feel like it. Some need a schedule to stay on track (of which I'm guilty)

That's a good point, maybe I should remove the last part. I don't even know they guy. I just don't like seeing people being discouraged from reading ambitiously, no matter who they are. Especially when the numbers add up just fine.

Yeah, I do. Lot's of technical stuff for work, plus various MOOCs. Working through FastAI and Deep Learning on Coursera atm plus some math stuff for fun.

Is this gossiping?