Books

Cutting through the noise and sharing the most insightful concepts of each book.

History Featured

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari — Book Summary and Notes

In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. How can insights about the distant past and future help us make sense of current affairs and of the immediate dilemmas of human societies?

Entrepreneurship Featured

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki — Book Summary and Notes

Having two dads offered Robert T. Kiyosaki the luxury of observing the effects of two contrasting perspectives: the Poor Dad, and the Rich Dad.

Entrepreneurship Featured

Start With Why — Book Summary and Notes

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others?

Psychology Featured

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel — Book Summary and Notes

In what other industry does someone with no college degree, training, background, formal experience, and connections massively outperform someone with the best education, training, and contacts?

Personal Development

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon: Book Summary

Copy your heroes work and use it as a springboard to find your style. Let neither praise nor criticism drive you off track. Remember to have fun.

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Technology

Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport: Book Summary

A philosophy that accepts new technologies, but not if the price is dehumanisation. Maximise the benefits of technology and avoid the pitfalls from compulsive use.

Entrepreneurship

Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki: Book Summary

An Employee (E) works for the system. A Self-Employed (S) is the system. A Business (B) controls the system. An Investor (I) invests money into the system.

Psychology

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: Book Summary

Techniques in Handling People: Don’t Criticise, Condemn or Complain. Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation. Appeal to there interests.

Investment

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel — Book Summary and Notes

A Random Walk Down Wall Street advocates for the individual investor to take control over their financial journey through lessons from history, behavioral economics, and market theory.

Medicine

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi — Book Summary and Notes

One day he was a doctor treating patients, and the next he was a patient himself, struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined, evaporated.

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Medicine

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande — Book Summary and Notes

Medicine has prevailed in modern times, making birth, injury, and infectious disease less traumatic. However, as Gawande observed in his medical career, the goals of medicine seem to frequently contradict the interests of the human spirit.

Entrepreneurship

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss — Book Summary and Notes

Most people want to be millionaires, but what we truly desire is the freedom associated with a millionaire’s lifestyle.

Entrepreneurship

Zero To One by Peter Thiel — Book Summary and Notes

Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brine won't make a search engine

Personal Development

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson — Book Summary and Notes

Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically optimistic expectations. We "must" always strive for more—more happiness, more money, and be more successful than the rest.

Personal Development

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon — Book Summary and Notes

Share Your Creativity: Provide value for a long time and expect nothing in return. Share your thoughts, your process and your work online periodically, no matter how small.

Philosophy

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius — Book Summary and Notes

Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflection.

Personal Development

Love For Imperfect Things by Haemin Sunim — Book Summary and Notes

Haemin Sunim shows us how to cultivate more love, compassion, and wisdom to find beauty in the most imperfect things–including your very own self

Psychology

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker — Book Summary and Notes

When did life start sleeping? What if sleep is so helpful that the real question is: Why did life ever bother to wake up?

Entrepreneurship

Anything You Want by Derek Sivers — Book Summary and Notes

Ten Years of Experience in 10 Mins. Business is not about making money. It’s about making dreams come true for others and yourself.

Personal Development

Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss — Book Summary and Notes

At some point, your career, finances, reputation, love life, and even the fate of your kids all hinge on your ability to negotiate.

Personal Development

Four Thousand Weeks By Oliver Burkeman — Book Summary and Notes

What ambitious investment is meaningful to undertake today, if you could come to terms with never seeing the results?

Technology

Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions — Book Summary and Notes

What if we applied computer science to decision-making in everyday life? An algorithm is not just a series of steps used to solve computing problems, but rather it provides a better standard to compare human cognition itself. * Optimal Stopping: Teaches us when to look and when to leap for an

Philosophy

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl — Book Summary and Notes

To live is to suffer; to survive is to find meaning in suffering. If there is a purpose in life, there must be a purpose in suffering and dying.

Entrepreneurship Featured

Good To Great by Jim Collins — Book Summary and Notes

Good is the enemy of Great. Few people attain great lives because it is easy to settle to settle for a good life. Many companies never become great because they become too good—that is their main problem.

Investment

The Bible of Value Investing: Book Notes from Graham and Dodd’s “Security Analysis"

The future is inherently uncertain, so we must have an adequate margin of safety.