{"id":1473,"date":"2009-10-21T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T02:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2009-10-21T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T02:01:59","slug":"book-attention-deficit-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/book-attention-deficit-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Attention Deficit Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gubatron\/4032925129\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2573\/4032925129_3d579d1477.jpg?w=640\" title=\"7 Books I've started but haven't finished\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After I started working from home, and not commuting I realized the best time I had to read every day was the subway ride to and back from work.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it was sort of a guilty pleasure to sometimes wish for the subway train to not arrive so early so you could read a little more before you got to work.<\/p>\n<p>Now, between work, marathon training and life, I barely have any time left to read and I sometimes feel guilty to take the time to read. Usually I do so right before I go to bed, and I can only keep my eyes open for maybe 10 minutes so I&#8217;m not progressing in any of these very much.<\/p>\n<p>I guess public transit commuting wasn&#8217;t so bad after all.<\/p>\n<p>What do you advise? Should I read one by one? take a whole weekend and do nothing but read? How do you fight sleepiness? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I started working from home, and not commuting I realized the best time I had to read every day was the subway ride to and back from work. I guess it was sort of a guilty pleasure to sometimes wish for the subway train to not arrive so early so you could read a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[120,123,217,522,827,1000],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","tag-add","tag-adhd","tag-books","tag-help","tag-reading","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-nL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/nintendo-trivia-podcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":1473,"position":0},"title":"Nintendo Trivia Podcast","author":"gubatron","date":"April 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"If spent considerable part of your childhood playing Nintendo (and you're 20something), this podcast will make you feel like a 9 year old. 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