[guilhas]

Books are still super relevant

If you read something written by a field specialist you don't just learn something, you get the core of the issue. All the mechanics that lead to it, tradeoffs, and the possible paths for the future. That makes the book relevant for many years

Though it is hard to make ourselves read long form content nowadays where short content is pushed to us every day

Also seeing so much short content make us think the books are outdated. When in reality it keeps churning the same implementation details and getting us burned out for not progressing. And bleeding keeps being reinvented on set concepts

And might be a good hiring tip, read a book a year, put it on your CV

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