13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: The Automatic Millionaire Summary by David Bach is a get-rich-slowly-but-surely manual brimming with numerous practical pieces of money-related advice on everything from how to “pay yourself first” 10% of your pretax income through how to make all payments automatic to pro-tips on how to buy a home and pay it […]
16 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: “Inventology” is a 2016 book by Pagan Kennedy which deals with five important aspects of the process of invention: the nature of problem finding, the role of serendipity in the creative process of discovery, the strategy of prophecy and futuristic thinking, the necessity of connecting unusual ideas together, and the […]
13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: Own the Day, Own Your Life by Onnit founder Aubrey Marcus is an all-in-one manual for “total human optimization,” providing a bunch of valuable pieces of advice on everything from waking and eating a good breakfast through working and training more efficiently to acquiring proper sleeping habits and having more […]
15 min read ⌚ Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living Want to live a better life? Well, Massimo Pigliucci is too. And he’s interested in teaching you one and one thing only: How to Be a Stoic. Who Should Read “How to Be a Stoic”? And Why? How to Be a Stoic is a book which everyone […]
11 min read ⌚ Have you ever gone on a trip around the Gulf South for no apparent reason? Do you want to go on one? How about having Joan Didion for a companion? If the answer to both of the questions above is “yes” then – hop on: South and West. Who Should Read “South […]
15 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: “Through the Language Glass” by Guy Deutscher separates fact from fiction in a burgeoning, but rather controversial field: linguistic relativity. In addition to sketching out a brief history of the research done in the area, Deutscher’s book recalls hundreds of experiments which show why, how and to what extent language […]
12 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: “Amusing Ourselves to Death” explores whether Aldous Huxley’s fictional and dystopian vision of the future described in Brave New World hasn’t already turned into the reality of our TV-dominated and image-centered present. Spoiler alert: it has, and TV and reality shows are our pleasure drugs, our very own soma. Who […]
13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: “Amusing Ourselves to Death” explores whether Aldous Huxley’s fictional and dystopian vision of the future described in “Brave New World” hasn’t already turned into the reality of our TV-dominated and image-centered present. Spoiler alert: it has, and reality shows and Netflix are our pleasure drugs, our very own soma. Who […]
13 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: The Wisdom of Life is a short philosophical essay by Arthur Schopenhauer in which the most famous philosophical pessimist in history explores the nature of human happiness and tries to understand how one should order his life so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success. Who […]
14 min read ⌚ Quick Summary: The Sunflower by Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal is a two-part book which explores the limits of forgiveness. In the first part, Wiesenthal recounts how he got to be asked for forgiveness by a Nazi soldier; in the second, he shares the opinions of 53 people on whether he should have […]
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