Welcome to my Book Notes.
I’ve read over 200 books in the last 2 years. Here is a collection of my insights from over 50 of my favourites.
Gifts of Imperfection
Brown shares her push for wholehearted living: seeing ourselves as lovable and worthy of belonging. We should embrace our imperfections, and engage with them.
Antifragile
How we can gain from disorder. Why we need to harness and benefit from randomness, volatility and uncertainty to become antifragile.
The Radical Sabbatical
Discusses career fulfilment and advocates for more diverse career education and having a portfolio of careers, not just one. Advice on networking, finding time, having money and making change.
Bullshit Jobs
A hidden phenomenon on how work has turned into a central aim of our life, creating inefficient, pointless work, even though capitalism was meant to stop this from happening.
Weapons of Math Destruction
The dangers of big data and algorithms will have on democracy and society.
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Why we should look to creating a better story in order to have a more meaningful life. This is a book about someone turning their life into a movie and the key lessons.
Why We Sleep
Sleep is a universal, biological requirement yet there is little targeting or information about sleep despite its importance.
The Tipping Point
Why do some ideas or behaviours or products start epidemics and others don’t? This book explores why some stuff goes exponential but not others.
Essentialism
The way of the Essentialist is the relentless pursuit of less but better. The way of the Essentialist rejects the idea that we can fit it all in, instead it’s about making real trade-offs and tough decisions.
Stumbling on Happiness
What makes humans different from animals is that we think about the future. Yet, we have all kinds of biases that mean we are not very good at predicting what will make us happy in the future.
Utopia For Realists
An intervention for radical, innovative societal changes needed to make things better as the current land of ‘wealth and plenty’ looks bleak.
Factfulness
We have an outdated, often decades old, world view when it comes to big issues. This book is about installing a worldview upgrade that is actually accurate.
Rebel Ideas
Rebel Ideas brings a whole new dimension to the word diversity and reinforces its importance in the fast paced complex world of today.
Alone Time
In a society that is easily distracted, and afraid of the connotations of being alone, this book demonstrates the benefits of solitude; from her perspective travelling alone to 4 cities.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The key, condensed insights from thought leader Naval Ravikant on wealth, happiness, health, honesty, freedom and more.
Hello World
In the age of algorithms, we need humans more than ever. Why we need humans and algorithms to work together.
Talking to Strangers
We make big decisions based off our interactions with strangers - but we are not very good at it. Unparalleled insights into changing the way we interact with strangers.