More generally than just books,
when to quit, is a really hard problem
I'm reminded of the Hacker New link from a month or so ago about 'The emotional journey of creating anything great' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164822
where most of the time invested in doing something, looks like all the time you invested, will end up having a poor ROI
pretty much every point there except the end looks like a case study for calling it a sunk cost and quitting to do something else.
Its a hard thing to know when your sample size of data is big enough to make conclusions that have consequences on
(I guess all in all that's the point, you need to use some heuristic, and the link is arguing for a heuristic of 50 pgs when reading a book, which seems like a rule of thumb that I have no particular objection to)
when to quit, is a really hard problem
I'm reminded of the Hacker New link from a month or so ago about 'The emotional journey of creating anything great' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164822
where most of the time invested in doing something, looks like all the time you invested, will end up having a poor ROI
pretty much every point there except the end looks like a case study for calling it a sunk cost and quitting to do something else.
Its a hard thing to know when your sample size of data is big enough to make conclusions that have consequences on
(I guess all in all that's the point, you need to use some heuristic, and the link is arguing for a heuristic of 50 pgs when reading a book, which seems like a rule of thumb that I have no particular objection to)