Yet again, this is not a book review, instead, go ahead and read the book Atomic Habits. I canât recommend it enough. Written by James Clear, the book is not a theoretical text just talking about habits. Rather, it is a handbook that goes into the depth of how habits form, how they can be fostered, how human evolution hinders good habit formation in todayâs world, etc. It gives you practical tips and actions on setting good habits and breaking bad ones....
This is not a book review. Instead, this is a book recommendation. Please go ahead and buy this book. If you cannot afford to buy the book, please reach out to me. I will help you buy itâ. This blog will give you a general idea of what this book is about. I will provide some background about the book and the author, followed by the notes from the book....
Synopsis of the Book The Psychology of Money, written by Morgan Housel, published in 2020, could be categorised under Psychology, Finance, and Nonfiction. The author wrote an article three years ago which got a lot of traffic hence decided to write a book out of it. Last year I saw that the book was recommended by many folks in my network and on Twitter. All of the recommenders were highly impressed by the book and spoke intensely of it....
Introduction I recently finished reading the book: âHow Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedomâ by Matt Ridley. The book was published less than a year ago in May 2020, and it is a short read of fewer than four hundred pages. I am not sure how to categorise this book, it probably falls into business, science and/or technological history. While listening to Naval Ravikantâs podcast, I found this book when Matt Ridley, the author, was a guest in one episode....
Introduction How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking â for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens is a small (171 pages) non-fiction genre book. The book is a manual explaining Zettlekasten method designed by Niklas Luhmann. Sönke has used straightforward and simple English to explain the concepts. For anyone who is a knowledge curator or wishes to publish non-fictional content in any form (text, video or audio), this book is a must-read....
Introduction The book âAlgorithms to Live by â The Computer Science of Human Decisionsâ is written by âBrian Christian and Tom Griffithsâ. It fits into the genre non-fiction, psychology and computer science. The book is written lucidly. If you have a background in computer science, then this book is easy to follow. The book creates analogies of computer science algorithms with real-life situations. I felt that some metaphors sound good in reading than their application, so if you plan on applying the things explained in the book directly to your life, they might not work....
Introduction Recently I completed the book called Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity by David Allen. I read the book on my kindle e-reader device, and as the name suggests, it is a self-help category book and about three hundred pages long. The book is an extraordinary walkthrough of how to set up a system that will help you navigate your daily tasks without missing any of them. This system then enables you to patch up the crevices of your memory from which day-to-day tasks fall through....