"Part of what makes this compelling is not so much reading every tweet but just getting a real-time sense of how fast this is moving, " he said.

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Like every guy I know, I stopped reading actual books around the time DSL replaced AOL. Simmons also writes incredibly long.

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Every person has 13 cards in their reading, some of which change over time, that can tell you heaps about yourself.

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And I see sometimes people will spend a huge amount of time on their big business idea and doing tons of market analysis and reading every article they can and cross-referencing 20 different potential competitors.

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And I will say exactly why this is so: electronic books offer two major advantages: one, a lot of people would like to read books that they don't want to be seen reading, and don't want to have to move from apartment to apartment every time they get a new job in another city or graduate from college, or what have you.

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Set yourself a goal of not only reading about productivity, but developing a collection of 10 time management techniques that you use every day- a quiver of productivity weapons that become central to your working life.

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If Bill were reading over my shoulder right now, he'd try to sell you some story about how every time he offered to help I would wave my large kitchen knife at him and tell him everything was under control, but this would be a tremendous, tremendous exaggeration.

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