<h1>Listening notes: Get Ready</h1>
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<li>The book is about preparation, in the most practical and pragmatic sense. If you have X hours to spend, and your goal is to do the best possible job at Y, how should you spend your X hours? The answer is probably not do do the most traditional, conventional sorts of practice. Buzzy has better answers.</li>
<li>This book should be as famous as The Art of Learning in the relevant crowd. I would actually recommend Get Ready over The Art of Learning for most people.</li>
<li>I was hearted to see echoes of <a href="https://www.natemeyvis.com/on-preparing-for-coding-interviews.html">my notes about preparing for coding interviews</a>.</li>
<li>Buzzy did a great job reading the audiobook. Unlike most, it's a pleasure to listen to.</li>
<li>The material is very general and not just for prospective Jeopardy! contestants. (This is very clear from the book itself, but not as clear from its marketing.)</li>
<li>Picasso (supposedly) said that whereas when art critics get together they talk high-mindedly about art concepts, when artists get together they talk about where you can get cheap turpentine. This is the "cheap turpentine talk" of life.</li>
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I value nuts-and-bolts / practical-advice-type books more than most people do (<a href="100-books.html">proof</a>), and this is the very best one I know of in its domain.

Nate Meyvis

Listening notes: _Get Ready_