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What do you read?

Posted by lee Mon, 19 May 2008 00:17:00 GMT

I found myself answering this question on two separate occasions this weekend.  I have a reading ‘goal’ of sorts, that I sometimes fall short on because of other obligations (distractions?).  As in my weekend conversations, I’ll give the ideal list here.

I read:

* The Wall Street Journal every day

* The Economist every week

* One programming book a month.  Just finished The Rails Way.  Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns is on deck.

* One non-programming book a month.  This one slips more often than I’d like.  Currently its the biography of Alexander Hamilton.

* Refactoring, by Martin Fowler, every year.  This was the first book I ever read twice.

* Buffetology, by Marry Buffet, every year.  Light years beyond any other investing book, blog, or magazine I’ve read.

* Blogs.  There are enough blogs worth reading out there that could occupy all of your free time.   Probably all of your time, period.  The process of slimming these down to a particularly useful and relevant list is a continuing one for me.  I don’t want to spend more than half an hour a day  on this.

* xkcd and profootballtalk.com are a daily must :)