Cameron Herold argues against reading books "just in case" and pushes for just-in-time learning instead. He cites Good to Great and its concepts like the flywheel and hedgehog principle as examples of selective reading. Read what you need when you need it, not what you might someday use.
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I was reading the book Good to Great, and I remember going back to it and reading the section around the flywheel and then later going back and reading the section about the hedgehog concept and then later going back and reading the concept around Level One Leadership. I'm like, interesting. Like, it's not a novel. There's like, literal components of that book that are relevant to what I need. And it doesn't matter if I read the whole book front to back. Right now I need to read what I need to learn. And I think from that. I don't know if I coined the term or if I've maybe started popularizing it, but maybe it's not even a term yet, but it's more like just in time learning versus just in case learning. And I think so often people read a book just in case we need to have that knowledge at some point in the future versus I'm working on something this week or this month, I'd like to read about that thing that I'm working on just in time. That's probably why that that kind of even occurred to me is just grabbing parts of a book and reading the parts versus you know, it's not 50 shades of gray. You don't have to read it front by back to get the whole story.