I love self-hosted book / reading lists, and have drawn a lot of inspiration from others doing the same. Books are sorted in order of recommendation, not by read-date.
Read: 2023
I love small books. I love short books. To the point. I always appreciated John Cleeses humour, and this book – even though its not going into much detail – shows a little bit of his thinking process around creativity.
Especially the part regarding hare brain, tortoise mind struck a cord with me. That an important part of creativity seems to be ones ability to be comfortable with things being unsettled for long enough to find creative solutions.
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Read: 2024
Great and light read. No single ground-breaking thoughts, but a very cohesive and interesting read. Easy to read, in the style of M. Gladwell, R. Holiday etc.
Read: 2024
Great, light read on general life wisdom from Naval. Mostly no-fuss stupidly obvious tips, but nonetheless very straightforward and on point.
Read: 2025
Great and light read. Kind of a bummer with certain sections that I had already read in blog form before (three sides to risk especially), but otherwise a very fun and engaging read.
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Read: 2018 (reread 2025)
Read: 2025
Better than expected. Somehow I expected it to fall short of "Can't Hurt Me", but I was pleasantly surprised.
Some things that I found interesting and novel was the idea of recording yourself, and listening back to it - as an alternative note-taking method.
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Read: 2025
Partly very good and of course a very inspiring and engaging story. Overall though I found it suffered from overly verbose and difficult to read vocabulary. I guess my English is not good enough to fully enjoy a book of this vocabulary.
Read: 2025
Fairly easy and enjoyable read, but not all the rage I feel people sell it as.