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How long did it take you to go through the book?


I've worked at it very occasionally, off and on over the last couple of years and currently I'm on section 4/5.

If I were to do it consistently for an hour a day 4ish days a week I think I could have finished it all in 2-3 months.


Are the 2 courses sufficient on their own? or do I need to read the book as well?


Those 2 are part of 6 courses. See my comment above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26515981


The 2 courses are based on the book, but do not require, or even refer to the book.


I think they have offered his job back. That's the impression I got reading from their blog: https://github.blog/2021-01-17-update-on-an-employee-matter/

"In light of these findings, we immediately reversed the decision to separate with the employee and are in communication with his representative."


I thought I was the only one.


> How to take Smart Notes

I have read over 100 pages of the book but to be honest, I am disappointed with it. I learn best by examples, the book is failing short of examples on how to use Zettelkasten. My expectation was the book was going to walk me through the process of implementing Zettelkasten like a tutorial, but instead it keeps going back in circles, talking about why I should use Zettelkasten. I am about to finish the book but I still have a lot of questions.


OP here

Yeah, that book was pretty light on practical advice. I didn't find much in there that I hadn't already discovered by reading blog posts about it

One thing that was unique though, was a set of questions to ask yourself while reading to get extract the most insights out of the material.

I posted them here if you're interested:

https://twitter.com/ZainRzv/status/1195038683461611521


Genuine curiosity: why do you take the extra effort to choose and then add an emoji at the end of most of the sentences in these tweets?


It doesn't take much effort. Win + '.' opens up the emoji selector, and just start typing a word to search the emojis.

Why bother? Sometimes they help to convey emotion that would otherwise be missing. Other times it helps to break up dryer blocks of text.

That, plus it's fun :)


Weird suggestion that might help:

My second reading of Test Driven Development, I literally did the entire book along with the author, front to back.

That's when it clicked. The actual manual mechanical kinesthetic activity somehow made it work for me.


https://www.stanleyulili.com

I don't think anyone should read. I just write random stuff about vanilla Js and node. I wish I could post often but am lazy most of the times.


Good move.


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