• Book title: Wisdom Takes Work
• Author: Ryan Holiday
• Rating: 5/5

This is the best book in the Virtues series. It's the one that honestly makes the most sense right now.

Notes & Highlights

“A writer—and I believe, generally all persons,” Borges reminds us, “must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

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• Book title: The Art of Spending Money
• Author: Morgan Housel
• Rating: 4.5/5

I like Housel's writing, so I had to read this, and I was not disappointed. The ideas in it are not new to me, but still a good reminder. It might be a book I have to recommend to other people.

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• Book title: Enshittification
• Author: Cory Doctorow
• Rating: 4/5

One issue I had with this book is the amount of repetition it had. I wonder if that comes from the fact that Doctorow is primarily a blogger, and somehow tried to bring linking to a book? The insights are great, but that just felt weird.

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• Book title: Radical Focus
• Author: Christina Wodtke
• Rating: 3.5/5

Reading this right after Brandon Sanderson might have been a mistake, but I basically got it as home-work from one of my mentors. The fake story is written like a school essay, but at least the ideas in this are good.

Notes & Highlights

It’s not important to protect an idea. It’s important to protect the time it takes to make it real.

“When you are tired of saying it, people are starting to hear it.” —Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn

OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results. The form of the OKRs has been more or less standardized. The Objective is qualitative, and the Key Results (most often three) are quantitative.

Studies show that women will not apply for a job unless they are one-hundred-percent qualified, while men will apply when they are sixty-percent qualified. If you only list what you absolutely need in a candidate, you will get a bigger pool of prospects.

The sweet spot for OKRs is somewhere in the 60–70% range. Scoring lower may mean the organization is not achieving enough of what it could be. Scoring higher may mean the aspirational goals are not being set high enough.

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• Book title: The Well of Ascension
• Author: Brandon Sanderson
• Rating: 4.5/5

A good follow-up to the first book, although at times maybe a tad too long?

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I'll be adding 10 songs to a new list every week.

Here are Volume 1 and Volume 2.

• Book title: Mistborn
• Author: Brandon Sanderson
• Rating: 5/5

I finally understand the hype.

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• Book title: The Wager
• Author: David Grann
• Rating: 3.5/5

If this were a fiction book, I’d have criticized it, because nobody can be this unlucky. But it’s a true story, which makes it even crazier. Also, this book had me eating a ton of fruit, just to dodge scurvy.

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• Book title: Ubik
• Author: Philip K. Dick
• Rating: 6/5

I read through this book in a day. I couldn't put it down and during the whole reading season I was wondering WTAF was going on. I understand why it's on the list of Top 100 Novels of all time.

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• Book title: Start With Why
• Author: Simon Sinek
• Rating: 3.5/5

This is a good book, but I’m burned out on non-fiction self-help. I might skip them for a while.

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