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Book Summary: Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal explains how to increase your productivity without relying […]

Last year I did a round-up for this site, sharing the best and worst books I summarised, how the website’s doing, and […]

I’ve read and summarised over 20 books this year, quite a few of which were self-improvement or productivity books. Sometimes I wonder […]

My latest summary is for The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. It explains how the humble checklist […]

This summary of The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by […]

This summary of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis explains what exactly went down during the 2007 Global […]

I liked The Paradox of Choice. I liked it enough to read it twice. Schwartz makes some excellent points that paved the […]

This summary of Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert explains why we consistently err in predicting what will make us happy. The […]

The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant is a sweeping examination of history, human nature, and the patterns that we […]

A message that comes through strongly in Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice is the idea that we should try to become […]