Zachery Ringstrom

I'm either reading or training.

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@mweinbach Same. I've been wanting it for so long.

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A lot of people worry whether they’re reading the “right” things. There isn’t a right answer, so long as the reading is getting done.

Starting with steamy romance might be what draws you in. That’s totally fine. Later, you might try a more classic steamy romance. Perhaps one of the most controversial steamy romances, like Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence. It was so steamy for its time that it was banned in the US and the UK for large stretches of time.

And that might lead you to something more tame on the surface, but equally lurid for its time, Madame Bovary.

And just like that, you’ve gone from “junk” steamy romance (no reading is junk reading) to a true classic.

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@TeddyRookBook These book stacks are so aesthetically pleasing

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@pensandpoison The tricky part is getting your taste up to the level of enjoying the greats

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The easiest way to make time for reading is to do it at the same time every day.

A reading habit isn’t different from an exercise habit.

Same time, same place means it actually happens.

Bonus: reading shouldn't be trapped in that one slot. I always carry a book with me.

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@quartermass moody

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Bike companies like Specialized are going to have a hard time winning public support for anti-competitive measures against Chinese manufacturers squishing their margins.

Cyclists are probably one of the most annoying archetypes of people that are perceived as an 'elite' class.

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@JoshPhillipsPhD It’s also endless amounts of aligning ppt presentations which AI does perfectly now

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Quick reminder: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, Tolstoy’s early “semi-autobiographical” trilogy, is not reliable autobiography.

They’re heavily fictionalized. Tolstoy himself treated large parts as invention rather than straight memoir. You can draw some parallels to his life. In other places, you can’t.

Read them as fiction first. Biography second, carefully.

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@readswithravi @JackCarrUSA

[Lindsay @pgillian____]

Everyone trying to be rational here is missing the point. I ride an S-Works bc it signals I am wealthy. It's really that simple.

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@TeddyRookBook I love Teddy Roosevelt. The River of Doubt is an amazing book about his adventure through the Amazon. Somebody described Teddy Roosevelt to me as David Goggins for readers. Couldn’t agree more

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@TeddyRookBook I’ve never seen this, sending it to everyone I know now haha

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Human reason is infinite in its aspirations, yet absolutely strict in its limits.

Tolstoy shows this with a bee. Depending on who’s looking, its “purpose” changes completely.

Same creature. Infinite explanations. None of them exhaust it.

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@shawngorham Overall this is good for cyclists! Might be a weird time for bike shops though

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I imagine this is also how they’re going to sell overpriced AR glasses too

[TechnicallyTee @TechnicallyTee]

Apple dropped that new lease program.

That foldable is $2499 lol.

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@maiab I did it and haven’t looked back since

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@Brady_H Why don't you use Air Pods Pro?

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The book is called Brothers Karamazov

[Constance bookish @ThebookishC]

Every reader has that one book they’ve restarted three times, and still haven’t finished.

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@JoshPhillipsPhD Hopefully they realized that even if you can read every page in a week, you can’t possibly soak up all a book has to offer in a week.

I went through Anna Karenina and War & Peace in about 8 weeks. As I listen to podcasts and read articles breaking them down, I missed a lot!