RK #68 - "Read Knowledgeable" Special Edition

[wgao19]

React Knowledgeable Week 68

🗓 Date: 18:00, Friday, Mar 27, 2020 🦄 Host: @wgao19 @KenLSM 🗺 Location: Zoom or YouTube

@KenLSM joins @wgao19 to lead a chat with everyone on reading.

• do you read?
• what do you read?
• do you get peer pressure for (not) reading?
• any interesting books you want everybody to read?

Let's do a group discussion on reading. Bring your books and curiosities (to other people's reads).

We don't even need to change twitter handle -- reknowledgeable still works!

[wgao19]

depending on technical details, we'll decide whether we'll con-call with zoom or stream YouTube later this week

[swyxio]

zoom!

[wgao19]

hey @sw-yx yup we are using zoom (and youtube)! join us this week :)

[wgao19]

recap and a few useful links

do you read

chenchen's story
reads to learn things more systematically, i.e., carpenting, cooking

tenzy's story
annual reading challenge 1 book

wei's story
reads from childhood, didn't read much in college, resumes reading after starting to work

ken's story
finds reading for free time, reads for pleasure

what do you read

we haven't covered this too much, have we? apparently wei was busy with sth

ken was talking about 12 rules to life and tiger mentioned song of ice and fire, chenchen mentioned the woodworking one i cant remember, and also some cooking book, kenrick mentioned the colors book that you can borrow from his table

thanks @Tzyinc!

where to get books

• library
  • national library
  • overdrive / nlb overdrive allows you to borrow ebooks from library
• online bookstore
  • abebooks used books with decent care and categorization according to conditions
  • book depository decent prices, ships from UK so a bit slow
• electronic readers
  • kindle
  • kobo
  • 微信读书 mainly Chinese books, has apps for kindle
• read in bookstore

how to find next reads

• goodreads
  • kenrick
  • jennie
  • huijing
  • chenchen's douban so outdated, i'm disappointed :(
  • ridwan
  • tenzy
  • ✨ Read Knowledgeable goodreads group
• podcasts
• finds books about figures who all of a sudden become rich
• ✨ blinkist additional recommendation by mohsen
• ✨ bpluspodcast additional reference by mohsen, if you read persian

recommend me a book

• history of rome (podcast) from chenchen
• 1453 from wei
• How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from kenrick
• ✨ point us to a book additional reference by wei, a twitter thread started by dan abramov

[Tzyinc]

Re: what do you read: ken was talking about 12 rules to life and tiger mentioned song of ice and fire, chenchen mentioned the woodworking one i cant remember, and also some cooking book, kenrick mentioned the colors book that you can borrow from his table

[wgao19]

thanks @Tzyinc!

[swyxio]

i'm sorry i slept thru this call :( fwiw i was reading thru an early copy of https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ and finished skimming it yesterday! i love reading technical books cover to cover.

[wgao19]

Thanks for the recommendation @sw-yx! And you'll have many more Fridays to join :)