I bought a book
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2024 4:06 am
I don't read. (inb4 "I was born to lead not to read")
I used to read all the time. Like, constantly. Always reading something. I was a book-in-a-day type of person, having been a very fast reader. And I would often re-read books.
That was over a decade ago. These days, at most I will read technical manuals, technical books, those sorts of things and usually to explicitly learn a thing. But otherwise, I can't focus on books anymore. It's partially that I just can't maintain focus (probably brainrot from addiction to the internet or something), and partially that there aren't enough hours in the day, and there are things I would rather be doing for the most part. I've tried reading books in the style that I used to read, on topics I would enjoy, and even books I've already read. I've tried e-books, with no luck. Audiobooks also aren't my thing.
Well, I had a similar problem with podcasts in that I could not pay attention to podcasts. But, I found a trick where I could listen to a podcast if it was on a topic that I already enjoy AND if it was being made by a creator I already enjoy elsewhere, such as the WVFRM podcast from the MKBHD techtuber peeps.
This opened the door to listening to the Revolutions podcast. While I had not listened to any other podcasts by Mike Duncan or any of his other content, it was highly recommended by some friends and I quite enjoy history, so I gave it a shot and quite enjoyed it. I've been listening to it on and off for the past couple years (typically when driving or in the shower, or doing yardwork, that type of stuff). Sometime around 2016, he ended up writing a book, "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" which he was plugging during the episodes released around that time. I ended up deciding to try applying the same logic that got me into podcasts, to books, to see if I could get back into reading.
So I bought the book. We shall see if it ends up working or not.
I used to read all the time. Like, constantly. Always reading something. I was a book-in-a-day type of person, having been a very fast reader. And I would often re-read books.
That was over a decade ago. These days, at most I will read technical manuals, technical books, those sorts of things and usually to explicitly learn a thing. But otherwise, I can't focus on books anymore. It's partially that I just can't maintain focus (probably brainrot from addiction to the internet or something), and partially that there aren't enough hours in the day, and there are things I would rather be doing for the most part. I've tried reading books in the style that I used to read, on topics I would enjoy, and even books I've already read. I've tried e-books, with no luck. Audiobooks also aren't my thing.
Well, I had a similar problem with podcasts in that I could not pay attention to podcasts. But, I found a trick where I could listen to a podcast if it was on a topic that I already enjoy AND if it was being made by a creator I already enjoy elsewhere, such as the WVFRM podcast from the MKBHD techtuber peeps.
This opened the door to listening to the Revolutions podcast. While I had not listened to any other podcasts by Mike Duncan or any of his other content, it was highly recommended by some friends and I quite enjoy history, so I gave it a shot and quite enjoyed it. I've been listening to it on and off for the past couple years (typically when driving or in the shower, or doing yardwork, that type of stuff). Sometime around 2016, he ended up writing a book, "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" which he was plugging during the episodes released around that time. I ended up deciding to try applying the same logic that got me into podcasts, to books, to see if I could get back into reading.
So I bought the book. We shall see if it ends up working or not.