Do you even read bro? 5 advices on reading and staying up to date

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Medium

The road ahead was paved with HTML and CSS as I moved into Web Application development and the ever changing world of Frontend development. To stay ahead of the game you had to follow an extremely broad and somehow Greatly Divided field. Even if you are an UX engineer focused on design, HTML and CSS or a JavaScript engineer focused on programming, there are still a lot of topics to cover. This is where weekly digests helped a lot. At the beginning I was only getting Android Weekly which got replaced with JavaScript Weekly. Soon after I've added Medium daily digest. But the daily digest was a bit too much and I switched it to a weekly digest as well. Later on I added Frontend Focus, and have kept those three for more than 7 years now. Both JavaScript Weekly and Frontend Focus are structured in a similar way. You get a General Articles section to start with, followed by a Quick and Brief section outlining a couple of new things out here. After that three sections follow: Tutorials and Articles, Tools and Resources and the last one is Jobs. I read all of the headings as they alone are informative enough to learn if a new Node version is out or an LTS for a tool came to an end. Every now and then I open a job posting or two to see how the industry standard is changing in that regard, mostly checking out the perks and the salaries. Each of the three serves a purpose; JavaScript Weekly is JavaScript oriented, including backend JS. Frontend Focus includes more articles about Design and UX/UI, and my Medium feed is focused on Angular. In the end I usually read just one or two articles from all three weekly digests. Of course there comes a period of time when I do less reading, my inbox gets cluttered, I skip the digest for a couple of weeks and just delete them.

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Cognism

At Cognism, we are enabled and encouraged to improve and educate ourselves by reading and taking courses. My first try at better reading habits was booking reading slots during the work week in the calendar. But it was quite hard to come into the office, take a book out and start reading there. Once I'm in the office I enter the office mode. Usually one or two persons are already on Slack waiting for me, emails waiting to be replied to, meetings to attend etc. What I started doing at one point was instead of going directly to the office, I would spend 30-45 minutes in the building's coffee bar reading and would come into the office a bit later. Finding time to read at home is hard as well. Especially with 3 small children running around. For a while I did manage to squeeze in a slot. Once we put our 3 children to bed, instead of turning on Netflix immediately, I would spend 30-40 minutes reading, and then we would proceed to the newest must-watch series. Does not seem much, but falls nicely into the daily routine. In the end it is not about having time, we all have 24 hours in our day, but it's about the priorities and on how you want to spend your time. Experiment with different times and see what suits you the most and try to stick with it. If you have any suggestions or want to share any of you struggles please do post them in the discussion below!

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