{"id":179,"date":"2007-01-30T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/lifelong_learner\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-01-30T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T16:37:10","slug":"reading-books-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Reading Books in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goal this year is to read\/listen to 10-20 non technical books (and 10-15 technical books). Last year, I was able to listen to 13 books, <a href=\"http:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/2006\/07\/my_2006_book_list.php\">My 2006 Book List<\/a>. I don&#8217;t have too much time to actually read non-technical books so I use most of my commute time to listen to audio books. It&#8217;s a great use of down time. Use it as the learning time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What do I want to read\/listen this year? I love autobiographies, so I&#8217;ll probably listen to couple of those. I also like a motivation book from time to time. History books? Yes, I actually like them. I learned a lot about how America was founded by listening to autobiographies of the founding fathers. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>What are the best books I listened to last year? There are three that stand out: Authentic Leadership, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>As I said before, I don&#8217;t buy audio books any more. I rent them from my local library for free.<\/p>\n<p>I love to learn and reading is a great way to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goal this year is to read\/listen to 10-20 non technical books (and 10-15 technical books). Last year, I was able to listen to 13 books, My 2006 Book List. I don&#8217;t have too much time to actually read non-technical books so I use most of my commute time to listen to audio books. It&#8217;s a great use of down time. Use it as the learning time. \ud83d\ude42 What do I want to read\/listen this year? I love autobiographies, so I&#8217;ll probably listen to couple of those. I also like a motivation book from time to time. History books? Yes, I actually like them. I learned a lot about how America was founded by listening to autobiographies of the founding fathers. Good stuff. What are the best books I listened to last year? There are three that stand out: Authentic Leadership, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton. As I said before, I don&#8217;t buy audio books any more. I rent them from my local library for free. I love to learn and reading is a great way to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}