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They haven't.

Book reading can be like watching soap opera, mindless and you don't remember what you read after a few hours.

Good book reading requires introspection, time to digest, etc. Also, why are you reading it in particular? Is it just a story? What for?

For ivy league graduates, it's doable. All others will have to work much harder to impress (entering lottery odds).

Got direct feedback from one that I lacked skills in fast growing startups and two feedbacks that I wasn't a fit (even though I had all requirements in the job description). So that got me wondering what I could improve.

I think I'm competing with fresh graduates. I applied at startups with 20-200 employees initially. Really looking for that experience of taking something of the ground and scaling.

I know we shouldn't take rejections too seriously but reality is it was always easy for me to find a job. Maybe I've been too picky and overestimated my skills, maybe companies are being too picky now. I'm not sure but I'm thinking hard about this.