[書蟲］你最近睇緊咩書？12

Anyone involved in research and development knows that everything is more complicated and takes longer than pop culture makes it sound. The work to turn a shining idea into a practical tool can be tedious and is not interesting to outsiders, so its understandable that people have to change things when they explain why its compelling to insiders.

Books like this are not necessarily bad. They can motivate people who don’t yet know that a topic is cool. They certainly pay the author much better than careful, factual books, and we all have to eat and pay the rent or the mortgage. But if you want to learn true things, its important to read things which are more careful about details and more willing to point out things which do not support their way of seeing things. Just reading pop books with a ‘big idea’ will teach you a lot of exciting nonsense, but reading a few of them and many humble books will teach things of more lasting value.