How much work-related reading do you do per day?

Curious to see whether certain jobs in finance allow for/require more reading, or if it just depends on the person. My guess would be that HF analysts and PMs read more than traders or IB analysts, for example.

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  • hours spent reading for work per day

What are you reading? Morning notes, Economist, stuff on your terminal, RSS feeds (ZeroHedge anyone?), WSJ , business books?

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Future aspiration: like a madman. I cram everything I can in. Podcasts, very dry textbooks, white papers, documentation, research reports, any free MOOC I can get my hands on, interesting books, anything I find I voraciously read. If I did drugs at the rate I read, I’d make Jordan Belfort look like a wimp.

Also MIT has some incredible, free resources. Check out https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-open</a">MIT Press Open for info on so many topics all for free. For the books that cost $30, scroll and find the “Open Press” tab and download that PDF or HTML for free homies.

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