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Ask HN: Does reading techincal books help your software engineering career?
6 by castrodd | 2 comments on Hacker News.
It is the beginning of the year and so I am putting together my annual list of technical books that I would like to read this year. However, I am beginning to feel that reading these books is not having much of an effect on my performance at work. I also get the feeling that my colleagues consider the practice of reading physical books on technical topics a bit of a fool's errand. Do people here feel that this is a useful practice or are there better, more efficient ways to improve one's technical skills outside of the daily learning process on the job?