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How reading can make you a better developer

Ronaiza Cardoso on April 08, 2024

Have you ever had the feeling that everything has already been created by someone else? The world is big, and with the internet, we have the capaci...
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Oisín

To learn by reading, you have to spare time to let things settle inside yourself. If you get distracted by your phone, you will not be able to let your brain do the work that is needed to sink that knowledge in.

That's true. I've found it helpful to convert articles I want to read into an ebook format and read them away from the computer. I use GrabMyBooks which has a browser extension, but there are lots of other tools. Years ago I used "Plucker" which produced a single file that could be uploaded to my Palm PDA containing tens or hundreds of webpages for reading.
Doing it this way, away from the computer, helps to bring about a "slow time" feeling where you're not feeling constantly under pressure to alt-tab and multitask.

One other point that seems to be more and more neglected these days is that you also need time away from activity and even from input -- just pure thinking time. Modern life has eaten into that, which means people spend less time just thinking and coming up with ideas. You can take that time back!

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Jagatheesh

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