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January monthly round-up
Hope the first month of 2024 has been treating you well. And welcome to all our new subscribers - January was a month of record growth, more than doubling the number of subscribers in December, and it's great to have all of you on board😊
This month, I posted 2 book summaries and 1 blog post:
Book summaries
- ​Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal - Ali Abdaal is a popular productivity YouTuber, who suggests a variety of small ways to increase your productivity without relying on discipline or motivation.
- ​​Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows - I really enjoyed this book, which explains how systems thinking can help us better understand and change the systems in our lives.
Blog posts
- ​Thinking in Systems and Economics - I outline the key economics-related examples Meadows uses in her book and offer up some of my thoughts on her conclusions.
Early next month, I'll post a summary for How Democracies Die by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky. Quite fitting as we're facing the democracy paradox: more people in 2024 will be voting than ever before, yet democracy has rarely felt more vulnerable.
Lastly - a quick shoutout to my friend Ryan, who shares many short, actionable ideas at The Limitless Playbook. Did you know that by February, around 80% of people will have failed to keep their New Year's resolutions? Ryan explains why this happens and how to make sure you're in the successful 20%. Go check it out!
Until next time,
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen is a true classic in productivity circles. For that reason, I'd put off reading it for ages, figuring I would've already heard its best ideas through other authors who've been influenced by it. To my pleasant surprise, I still found it useful to read about Allen's original system and picked up a few "good tricks" along the way! As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link...
It's been a while since my last post as I've been taking some time off. But I'm back now with a new summary for Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is scarcity? Scarcity is when we have less than we feel we need. While the book mainly discusses money and time scarcity, it can also apply to things like counting calories or...
I've just published a summary for Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World. It's a useful primer on geopolitics and made me examine maps far more closely than I've ever done before! As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS Geography explains many differences between countries and significantly affects geopolitics. Countries’ borders often depend on natural geographical...