Reading recommendations for work? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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My work is up and down like a yoyo at the moment, to help avoid doom scrolling during quiet patches I've decided to start reading (nobody at work is going to pay attention to plain text on my screen, we're all in the same boat).

I've got a copy of Naomi Altman's The Power to start off with ... any other recommendations?

(Obviously can't be anything smutty or very funny because I need to be low-key, and lighter stuff would be easier to pick up and put down when I have actual work to do)

Thanks in advance :-)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I think a suggestion mentioned in Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber was to use a terminal based browser like lynx and spend your time on the web, e.g. reading and editing wikipedia articles. Most passers-by won't recognize the text on the screen as a browser and will think you're working.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I've converted the first book I'm reading to plain text and have it just down the side of my screen :-)

I don't have to bother with a bookmark since I just delete what I've read so far, which is also handy.

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