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Reading a book with blog posts in mind
With almost every book that I read, I read with the intention of digging in deep and then blog posts just happen to come out of it. A good example of that was Adam Grant’s “ Think Again”, where I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, and it just happened to generate a number of great ideas for posts.
That was flipped when I recently read “ Tribe of Mentors” by Tim Ferriss. Once I understood how the book was laid out, I read it specifically to put together a long series of posts about questions from the book.
So which way is better? I really don’t know.
I tend to think that both are valuable, just in slightly different ways. In either case I’m still digging in to learn and understand what they’re trying to say, so I don’t think there’s a downside to either technique.
Going forward I’ll still likely treat most books as I did with “Think Again”, largely because I don’t know what blog posts might even exist in them until I get there. I enjoy digging in and finding surprises along the way, and that’s what I’ll continue to do for most everything I read.
Originally published at https://www.mickmel.com on March 23, 2024.