Reading
A pursuit that looks like rest but isn't.
Overview
Reading is, per the talk page thread on whether Burbridge has hobbies, something Burbridge does. Whether it counts as a hobby has been formally deferred to the Council of Builds, which has not ruled. In the meantime, this article exists.
Preferred Reading
- Fiction — LOTR (frequent rereads), Hitchhiker's Guide, the occasional Le Guin.
- Technical — whatever the current build needs, read specifically for the problem at hand.
- Essays — short, opinionated, and ideally with footnotes. Strong bias toward people who think clearly in public.
- Trade publications — Fine Homebuilding, This Old House, and the occasional structural engineer's blog.
- Rarely — self-help; business biographies; anything with "disrupt" in the title.
Why It Matters
Burbridge has stated, several times, that the prose style of this wiki is a Douglas Adams thing. That credit is accurate but incomplete. The gravity beneath it — that building is a moral practice, that craft has an ethics — is closer to Tolkien. The jokes sit on top of the same foundation. Reading is how the foundation got there.
"You are what you read more than what you say." — Attributed to many, practiced by few