Universal truth with books. Most books are bad. Nearly all textbooks are bad
A good book can be measured by how much the author had fun writing it. Writing textbooks is a very boring task.
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How I Learn Math
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What You'll Wish You'd Known (archived)
==A key ingredient in many projects, almost a project on its own, is to [[finding good books and learning material is extremely important|find good books]]. [[Universal truth with books. Most books are bad. Nearly all textbooks are bad|Most books are bad. Nearly all textbooks are bad.]] \[9\] So don't assume a subject is to be learned from whatever book on it happens to be closest. You have to search actively for the tiny number of good books.==
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pick books by how much the writer had fun
Fun books are those written during inspiration times (i.e. at [[Flow is the peak human happiness|flow]] ). Books written on demand (e.g. [[Universal truth with books. Most books are bad. Nearly all textbooks are bad|textbooks]]) are almost always boring. Translations of most classical books are also written on demand, based on some organization asking a writer to translate it.
