Trying to be helpful by listing and linking peoples favourite quick reads (less than 1hr), that either changed their life or is something they’d recommend to everyone.
Inspired by McKay Wrigley’s tweet, “What’s a quick read (<1hr), in any format, that either changed your life or is something you’d recommend to everyone?”
Behavioural / Self Improvement
- The Road to Self-Renewal by John Gardner
- Memento Mori — How Remembering Your Mortality Improves Your Life by Jonas Salzgeber
- A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Mental Models and Worldly Wisdom
- The days are long but the decades are short by Sam Altman
- How To Be Successful by Sam Altman
- Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
- Give it five minutes
- Integrity Without It Nothing Works
- The Feedback Fallacy
- Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions
- Quantum Thinking — A New Mental Superpower, As Explained by Huge Nerds
- On Connecting…
Speech Transcripts
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace
- The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking by Peter D. Kaufman
- To have a fulfilling life you have to make promises by David Brooks
- Richard Hamming – You and Your Research
- How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen
Books
- Listening For Success by Steve Shapiro
- Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
- The Greatest Salesman In the World by Og Mandino
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- Lying by Sam Harris
- The Way to Wealth by Ben Franklin
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition by Richard Bach
- The Innovator’s Discussion by Betsy Campbell
- Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Full Book linked)
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
- Manual for Living by Epictetus (Full Book linked)
- Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Food Rules by Michael Pollan
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- THE FLINCH by Julien Smith (Full Book linked)
- The Kybalion
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- Stories of Your Life and Others Paperback by Ted Chiang
- Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
Science & Tech
- An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World’s First Digital Weapon
- The Fermi Paradox
- Building Muscle by Julian Shapiro
Business, Marketing, Future of Work etc
- The Freakishly Strong Base by Morgan Housel
- Invisible asymptotes
- Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt
- 1,000 True Fans
- The Schelp Blindness by Paul Graham
- Speed as a habit
- The Empowered Economy by Jomayra Herrera
- The Passion Economy by Li Jin
Misc
- The Tail End
- Sam Hinkie’s “Trust the Process” Resignation Letter
- The New 95
- Why explore René Girard’s Mimetic Theory?
- The Egg by Andy Weir
- A short lesson in perspective
- I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
- Becoming a magician
- A Mathematician’s Apology
- I, pencil
- The Takedown of Tupac
- The Inner Ring by C.S. Lewis
- The Use of Knowledge in Society by Friedrich A. Hayek
- The Outsider By H. P. Lovecraft
- An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish by Bertrand Russell
- Self-Reliance by RW Emerson
- Dancing With The Gods
Related Posts of Mine
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- Best Long (>600 Pages) Book You’ve Read?
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