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Escape the everyday grind by chilling out in a well with Murakami

Escape the everyday grind by chilling out in a well with Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a Murakami Haruki novel, in which an everyday guy is dragged into strange situations. Enjoy the inappropriate phone calls, absurd dreams, and the cold of the old well in a magical world where everything has some real-life teachings.

The Rational Optimist: Summary & Key Ideas

The Rational Optimist: Summary & Key Ideas

The Rational Optimist is a book about how humans overcame challenges, evolved beyond imagination and why these facts can give us hope when it comes to our future.

The Practise of Groundedness Summary

The Practise of Groundedness Summary

The Practise of Groundedness is a book about the uncompromisable values required to live a fulfilling life. It is not about peak performance or lifestyle hacks, but about the foundations that make striving for more sustainable.

The Culture Map: Summary of Key Ideas

The Culture Map: Summary of Key Ideas

Cultural patterns impact what we see, who we see, and how we act based on them. The goal of The Culture Map by Erin Meyer is to help us decode signs of different cultures and help the reader thrive in a global environment.

9 Read-Worthy Books from 2022

9 Read-Worthy Books from 2022

I brought you a topic I love: good books. They are not books from 2022, but books I read this year and found interesting.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Summary

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Summary

Haruki Murakami’s collection of memoirs about running is an inside view of the writer's everyday training and struggles through the years. It is not just about running but life (like most of the Murakami novels).

Courage is Calling: Summary and Notes

Courage is Calling: Summary and Notes

Courage is Calling is the first book of Ryan Holidays' new series on virtues. The book contains stories on how to combat fear, why we should take initiative, and the cost of playing small.

Made To Stick by Chip & Dan Heath: Summary

Made To Stick by Chip & Dan Heath: Summary

Made to Stick is a book about transforming ideas into simple stories that inspire people to act. The authors analyzed the most famous urban legends, the best advertisements, and a fair amount of research to come up with the SUCCES framework of good stories.

The Psychology of Money: Summary & Review

The Psychology of Money: Summary & Review

In The Psychology of Money author Morgen Housel uses interesting stories to illustrate our unlogical behavior with money. We are taught that money is science while it is rather stories, emotions, and soft skills.

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb: Summary & Notes

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb: Summary & Notes

Antifragile is about how one system can get better from randomness and shocks while others are broken by the same forces. In Antifragile we can learn about making our life & decisions more robust and spot fragile systems to minimise loss.

The Pathless Path: Summary & Notes

The Pathless Path: Summary & Notes

The Pathless Path is a book about what happens when you achieve success based on others' terms and still feel miserable. It’s about our unhealthy relationship with work, money, and accomplishments and how to fix that.

Empowered: Book Summary and Key Insights

Empowered: Book Summary and Key Insights

Empowered is a book about how to build a strong product organization and why does it worth it. The author dedicates his work to product leaders, but the takeaways of this book are valuable for most of us.

The Cold Start Problem - Book Summary & Review

The Cold Start Problem - Book Summary & Review

The most popular products are not competing on features. Their now competitive advantage is what made them challenging to get traction in the early days: the network. How to build and scale a networked product? The Cold Start Problem is the book with the answers.

The Suprising Benefits of Being Messy: A Perfect Mess Summary

The Suprising Benefits of Being Messy: A Perfect Mess Summary

Organize your notes, declutter your home, make order in your garage. They are accepted as productive activities, but are they always? It turns out sometimes it is worth being a little messy.

Product-Led SEO: Book Summary and Notes

Product-Led SEO: Book Summary and Notes

Product-Led SEO is a book about first-principle thinking in SEO. Instead of sharing ineffective tactics or analyzing Google guidelines like in most SEO books, Eli Schwartz put together a practical book with (as it looks like) timeless principles of search.

Lost Connections: Review & Summary of Key Ideas

Lost Connections: Review & Summary of Key Ideas

Depression and anxiety are the sharpest edges of a spear that are jabbed into everyone nowadays. But why is it so common and how to fix it?

Finite and Infinite Games: Summary of Key Ideas

Finite and Infinite Games: Summary of Key Ideas

Finite and Infinite Games seeks answers to the most important questions of existence through the lens of game theory.

The Sovereign Individual: Book Review

The Sovereign Individual: Book Review

Read about predictions written 30 years ago and became reality since then (borderless money transfers, the rise of decentralized finance, the knowledge economy). The rest of the book is about the future still awaiting.

Review and Notes: The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Review and Notes: The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

What happens to our money when inflation is high? How do public investments affect unemployment? Who prints the money and how does its quantity affect it? What is more important: happiness or money?

Review & Notes: Range by David Epstein

Review & Notes: Range by David Epstein

Not everyone wants to be a top athlete, world-class musician, or scientist. But nowadays, when there are eight sub-disciplines of every field, it is legitimate to ask: When is it worth specializing? And when not?

How to Make Work That Lasts? Perennial Seller Summary

How to Make Work That Lasts? Perennial Seller Summary

Why do we buy 500 years old books? How can a music record from the ’60s stay relevant and be popular over time? The secret lies in how they were created and marketed. They are Perennial Sellers.

Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks: Book Summary & Notes

Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks: Book Summary & Notes

Exercises of storytelling workshops, concrete and immediately applicable tips, story examples, and a summary of Storyworthy.

The Best Biographies and Autobiographies

The Best Biographies and Autobiographies

Would you like to immerse yourself in another age? Read about the shapers of history, or improve yourself by observing the practices and mistakes of others? After Heraclitus, we know you can't step into the same river twice, but there is so much advice in the lives of others.

Top 8 Banned and Challenged Books

Top 8 Banned and Challenged Books

The label “banned book” could also be seen as a good marketing tactic, but unfortunately, this is still not the case. While the promise of forbidden knowledge undeniably has a stimulating effect on reading, throughout history writers have been silenced because of the ideas behind their stories, and today in

20 Best Self-Awareness Books

20 Best Self-Awareness Books

How often do you look inward and reflect on your actions? This is my list of the best self-awareness books which provided me good questions to start with. I have read each book and recommend only the best. > "We go beyond not being important, but not by becoming important, but