I have a similar problem. It's really hard to work 8 - 10 hours then come home and try to have the steam to dive into a mathematics or algorithms textbook and go through it in a way that really lets me internalize the material.
Could be that I just haven't found the right books or rhythm for this kind of learning, though. Doesn't help that I'm a pretty disorganized person with my time outside of work, heh.
I've read a few posts on this blog before, and remember enjoying them. I'll have to read a few more. I think it's partly because of how much I hated formal education, and partly because a blog doesn't have the same physical presence as a textbook, but blog posts are less psychologically draining to think about than a book, for me.
I'd recommend downloading some lectures. I struggled with Linear Algebra before downloading Strang's MIT lectures, and I didn't understand the Dragon Book before following Coursera's Automata Theory course.
I had a really math light college degree, and never went through calc. It's always been pretty interesting and seams to show up enough places to warrant learning it, but I'm awful with time management. I'm bad about not giving myself consistent blocks of time to work through things. I think I'll give strang's calc videos another shot.
Could be that I just haven't found the right books or rhythm for this kind of learning, though. Doesn't help that I'm a pretty disorganized person with my time outside of work, heh.
I've read a few posts on this blog before, and remember enjoying them. I'll have to read a few more. I think it's partly because of how much I hated formal education, and partly because a blog doesn't have the same physical presence as a textbook, but blog posts are less psychologically draining to think about than a book, for me.