Understanding my Purposeful Discipline for Knowledge
Recently I had a conversation about my reading habits. Speaking through it, I realized the process I follow is purposeful. To better understand my motivations, I drew a diagram, similar to how I blog. In this write, I will step through and highlight the essential parts. By sharing my thinking with others, it will memorialize my important goal.
My Inspiration for Reading Books Comes From Others
When I choose books to read, commitment sparks from a conversation with another individual, mentor, or leader combined with a motivation factor. This recommendation aligns with a challenge I am experiencing or a skillset to improve. For instance, when I wanted a more holistic view of distributed systems in software in system design interviews, a recommendation for Designing Data-Intensive Applications improved my proficiency.
There are many routes to how I discover books. I am radically open to recommendations, and in some instances, I openly ask others. Book recommendations are also sourced from asynchronous mentorship — listening carefully to podcasts, YouTube, or crawling Amazon adjacent book recommendation lists.