reading, books & learning

consider submerging yourself in the canon of great works. read the finest literature, watch the masterpieces of cinem…

consider submerging yourself in the canon of great works. read the finest literature, watch the masterpieces of cinema, get up close to the most influential paintings, visit architectural landmarks. exposure to great art provides an invitation. it draws us forward and opens doors of possibility. this help us determine what's worthy of our time and attention. because there's an endless amount of data available to us, and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in. the objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness, so we can better make the thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work. it's through deliberate action and repetition that we gain deeper insight. patience is required for the nuanced development of your craft. that sounds so much like Steve Jobs: to make it really great, all it takes is a little more time and a willingness to persevere until it's really great. it takes more time. patience is required for crafting a work that resonates and contains all that we have to offer. impatience is an argument with reality. even the masterpieces that have been produced on tight timelines are the sum of decades spent patiently laboring on other works. if there is a rule to creativity that's less breakable than the others, it's that the need for patience is ever present. less is more, but to get less, you have to do more. If you're stacking a lot of things on top of each other, each one of those things becomes less important. So if you have 10 things, each one of them is one-tenth as important as one by itself. so if you're making something and you want the least amount involved, those things have to be really critically curated because they're doing the work of everything and nothing is hidden. if you're not in the practice of allowing the thing to happen, it won't happen. just because you do show up doesn't mean it will happen. but if you don't show up, it won't happen.

@AlexAndBooks_ "How To Read Like A Billionaire" Billionaire implies: - picking a valuable topic to read - effective reading which leads to learning - the purpose of acquiring knowledge is action, not knowledge ...

Hamming's talk is so important that I reproduced it on my site. It's one of the only things on my site written by someone else.…

@anilpatel just read the table of content and ordered. i love such mental model books (like the great mental models series by shane parrish)

@FarokhNotes این مقاله یکی از فصلای ابتدایی کتاب عادت های اتمی هست.

@InvestingCanons his book, “one up on wall street” is the best investment book i’ve read (and i’ve read 7-8 books on stock market investing)

i reduced my book reading activity significantly in the last 6 months due to heavy work on @mailoverai and now that the workload of the project is reduced, i feel less happy as a result. i’m back to reading daily again. starting with this classic: the art of war 🧵 All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Pretend disorder and crush him. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence: supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. there are five essentials for victory: (I) He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. (2) He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. (3) He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. (4) He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. (5) He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

i don’t remember which books i gave away in the last three years to a friend as new year’s gift. i’m afraid i’m giving the same book again this year! 😅🤷‍♂️

if you like the little feeling of accomplishment after reading a physical book, eBooks don’t give the same feeling. and i know, i know… reading shouldn’t feel like an accomplishment. the purpose of knowledge is not knowledge, is action… just a heads up😅 but i have the Kindle Oasis and it’s super easy to read compared to a physical book… but also i don’t know if easier is better for retaining knowledge 🤔 or if it’s irrelevant

learning is changing behavior. knowledge without action is smoke.

@AdamMGrant @lizandmollie Never read grit without reading quit immediately afterwards!

@CyrusYari @rationalvc “retention of total control” episode 400 of founders podcast: the stubborn genius of james dyson

@lauradang0 Oh! you need to either listen to this Paul Graham’s essay on taste or read it: Listen here: https://t.co/YxjD6UXVGs Read here:

1. learn the big ideas in big disciplines. 2. develop your own personal curriculum. 3. good ideas are rare; bet heavily when you find one. 4. trust your own judgement; think for yourself. 5. inversion: get what you want by avoiding what you do not want. - charlie munger

i only have the persian edition but i will tell you one thing: we have many meetups and communities in Iran (and outside) that their whole purpose is ”Shahname Khani” which means to read Shahname and interpret with historical context why Ferdowsi said this and what’s the point he is trying to make and what we can learn from it … they are obsessed with this work

napoleon: if i was designing an education system for my son, it would just be reading about great people that came before him. commanders in chief are to be guided by their own experience or genius. this is acquired only by your own experience and the studying of the great campaigns of all the great captains.

• the safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want. • you want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end. • there is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love; and that love should include the instructive dead. • you’re not going to advance very much in life without lifelong learning. • i constantly see people rise in life who were not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. they go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up. • nothing has served me better in my long life than continuous learning. • once you have the ideas, they are no good if you don’t practice them; you lose them. • a man who doesn’t know what happened before he was born, goes through life like a child. • in addition to history, you should know the big ideas in all the disciplines. you have to learn these ideas in a way that they’re in a mental lattice work in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. • the way complex adaptive systems work and the way mental constructs work: problems get easier to solve, if you turn them around and reverse. inversion will help you solve problems that you can’t solve another way. • not drifting into the extreme ideology is a very important thing in life, because it turns your mind into cabbage. • envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts. • self-pity is a ridiculous way to behave and when you avoid it, you get a great advantage over everybody else because self-pity is standard condition. • if you persuade appeal to self-interest, not to reason, the self-serving bias is so extreme. you want to appeal to interest. • incentives are too powerful a controller of human cognition and human behavior. • you want to avoid working directly under somebody you really don’t admire and don’t want to be like. • checklist routines avoid a lot of errors. • we have two kinds of knowledge. one is Plank knowledge, the people who really know. they’ve paid the dues, they have the aptitude. then we’ve got chauffeur knowledge. they have learned to prattle the talk. don’t let people with the chauffeur knowledge get the job over Plank knowledge. • i found that intense interest in a subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it. i could force myself to be fairly good in a lot of things, but i couldn’t be really good in anything where i didn’t have an intense interest. you want to drift into doing something in which you have a natural interest. • have a lot of assiduity. which means sitting down in your ass until you do it. - charlie munger

@naval you don’t want to study the actual lectures and formulas of physics? then this is a great series to read: The Great Mental Models read them all. loved it! by @shaneparrish @naval @shaneparrish i have studied physics for 7 years. this was better!

same here. it’s the first time i am using chatgpt to learn a subject deeply (ux design) and i see the big benefit. i learn best when things are explained in multiple ways: different wording, casual, formal, list form, analogies, examples, different angles, short, concise, punchlines … and this is so easy to achieve with chatgpt

my current learning bundle: #uxdesign #storytelling - a story is a deal by @wstorr - laws of ux by @JonYablonski

@mralexthomas following my curiosity and intuition. learning daily: books, podcasts.

learning is not memorizing information. learning is changing behavior.

all of his history’s greatest entrepreneurs studied, history’s greatest entrepreneurs

you learn a lot just by studying the best ideas of the people who came before you invest a huge amount of time building that foundational knowledge the dividends will be paid in surprising ways

learning by trial and error can be exciting the lessons learned deeply ingrained

new arrival: $100M Money Models by @AlexHormozi (i started re-reading the first one and will go for finishing all one after another)

@adamwathan not true. you can say IQ is about rate of learning or/and rate of pattern recognition typing speed comes from many hours of typing practice. so you can simply increase your speed by putting more hours into it, like playing music.

there's no test of how well you've read a book, and that's why merely reading books doesn't quite feel like work you have to do something with what you've read to feel productive

@signulll did you read “thinking in bets”? because there, the author makes the case as of why outcomes can be misleading in addition to what you just mentioned.

Your life will dramatically improve if you can replace mindless scrolling with physical book reading. Try it for one week.…

@WillManidis Read Write Own by @cdixon

@DanielPink Never read Grit without reading Quit immediately afterwards

Everyone wants the gist. But the gist is what's left after someone else decided what mattered. Their priorities aren't…

@IcyCortex I liked his first book, haven't read his second one yet, but it's on the shelf. This conference is a bit too pricy for me. But I get why. They seem to have Kent Beck as well... Looking froward for your take aways afterwards then!

@sama Means for learning are abundant. It's the desire for learning that is scarce.

New arrivals! 10,000 Hours of Play by @yukaichou and AI Engineering by Chip Huyen

New arrivals! 10,000 Hours of Play by @yukaichou and AI Engineering by @chipro

@readswithravi Thinking in Systems

@MissNonfiction I’m curious about the Courage is Calling. Love to read your review once you are done with it. I’m reading an investment book called “Rule #1”. It’s about stock market and picking individual stocks.

@goodreads Rolf Dobelli Books: - The Art of Thinking Clearly - The Art of the Good Life - Stop Reading the News https…

Superb books! @halvarian @CarlShapiro @kevin2kelly

@CyrusYari This book is more of a psychology, sociology, and science book rather than a traditional self-help book. Reading older books is a good strategy for weeding out noise from signal as Nasim Taleb suggested.

@goodreads Still this one… I began to like it as I am progressing. Even though I know most of the ideas. I like to be reminded of important ideas often.

@goodreads One Rule No 4 - One Book at a Time

Best method: 100 pages every day. 📖📚🔖👨‍🏫 Plus audiobooks on headphones during all dead time. 3-4 books a week no problem. 💪🧠🤯🤩

@goodreads Rolf Dobelli Books: - The Art of Thinking Clearly - The Art of the Good Life - Stop Reading the News

@goodreads A Guide To The Good Life

@henrimsimoes @philobreeze @goodreads I have read the Fooled by randomness. Great book. The only book I read from him

@goodreads Build by Tony Fadell

@goodreads Finished it yesterday: The Great Mental Models Vol 4: Economic &Art by Shane Parrish

@via_marketing_ @PhilipAmwata @goodreads The compound effect by Darren Hardy

@goodreads How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie

For product: I would give this ordered list: [“Lean Startup”, “Lean Product Playbook”, “The Design of Everyday Things”, “Lean B2B” (if you are interested in b2b products), “Actionable Gamification”, “Game Thinking”] For Leadership I would suggest: [“Developing the Leader Within You 2.0”, “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, “Influence”] For Business I would suggest: [“The Personal MBA”, “Why Startups Fail”, “Blue Ocean Strategy”, “Rework”]

@mycousincharlie @goodreads I do. What topics interest you? Thinking? Decision-making? Leadership? Science? Technology? Innovation? Product? Investment? Business strategy? Social/Human related? Presentation? Negotiations? Philosophy?

@goodreads The compound effect by Darren Hardy

2024 was: not good, not terrible in terms of reading for me. I abandoned a few books, finished maybe 10, re-read 1-2. My best read was (not in the picture, because I gave it away as a gift 😊 ): "Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away" by @AnnieDuke It gave me a new lens to look at bad decisions people make when they have failed at something. I learned a lot from other great works as well, let's do a 1-2 liner reflection on some of them: "Stop Reading The News" proved to me why news gives you no edge in life and how it takes away the most precious thing you have: your attention. "Ikigai" reminded me of what ultimately matters in life: your health and your relationships. It argued for staying active and building meaningful relationships to have a long and happy life. "Shortcut" revealed to me the power of analogies and how the right analogy can influence minds and hearts when communicating your ideas. @jdpollack "Clear Thinking" taught me a framework for making good decisions and gave me a toolkit to improve my judgement and thinking. @ShaneAParrish "Read Write Own" cast the vision for the future of internet networks and concisely communicated all new capabilities that crypto and blockchain technology brings. @cdixon "Marketing Made Simple" was a nice field manual for building sales funnels and landing pages. "The Anthology of Balaji" educated me all about the perspective and ideas of a great mind of our time: Balaji Srinivasan, @balajis the former CTO of Coinbase and finally "The Status Game" opened my eyes on the games humans play every day unconsciously. It gave me the ultimate lens to look at human behavior and interpret their actions. @wstorr Happy new year 🎉 & Happy reading! 📙 #books #reading #bookrecommendation

@goodreads Social: why our brains are wired to connect

@goodreads Social: why our brains are wired to connect

@goodreads Re-reading this one: The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli

@goodreads The Millionaire Fastlane by Mj DeMarco Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime I see life in…

@goodreads Stop Reading The News by Rolf Dobelli

@goodreads The Millionaire Fastlane by Mj DeMarco Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime I see life in a different way after reading this.

@goodreads Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke

@goodreads So far these 3 😊: - The Staff Engineers Path by Tanya Reilly - Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins - The Born Letters by Gary Halbert Special thanks to @IcyCortex

@goodreads This picture is from last night in Munich. I always give away my favorite books as gifts in Christmas times to my friends and aspiring readers… my Amazon account is filled with addresses of people who receive gifts from me in holidays.

@BookTasters Sapiens

Mental models describe the way the world works. This book is about getting out of our own way so we can better understan…

@readswithravi @ShaneAParrish @farnamstreet @portfoliobooks The latest volume is also pretty good. I’m currently reading it.

My all-time favorite investing book? It might be One Up on Wall Street. It's full of investment wisdom Here are the 10…

@goodreads The Great Mental Models, Volume 4: Economics and Art by Shane Parrish

@goodreads The Great Mental Models, Volume 4: Economics and Art by Shane Parrish

@Wellness__Blog @goodreads I read Thinking in Bets 2-3 years ago but the lessons are still with me. Recently I wrote a preview about what I still remembered from that book.

@paulg I almost never read a book that I bought immediately. I look at my mood, my current problems and my curiosity and go through my bookshelf to find something that piques my interest.

If you can afford it and have the space, there's nothing wrong with buying books that seem interesting but that you don't intend…

@goodreads Modern and practical philosophy! Easy to read “3-5” page chapters. I’m reading them for the second time. http…

@yrebryk The means of learning are abundant; the desire to learn is scarce. Said a wise man…

@goodreads Modern and practical philosophy! Easy to read “3-5” page chapters. I’m reading them for the second time.

@shadansays @readswithravi Other tactics? Read 3-5 pages in 15 minutes. Don’t try to read 30-60 minutes. Habits are built by frequency and not depth and duration.

@readswithravi We retain knowledge when we are provided by a lot of examples and surrounding arguments. When we spend hours engaging, thinking and then discussing a topic.

Book Summary: “The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition”

@goodreads 📍Majorca, Spain 🇪🇸 This masterpiece by Andrew Chen The Cold Start Problem Using network effects to scale your product I felt my IQ was raising as I read along…

@MazJobrani Twitter show you more of what you pay attention to. My feed is mostly filled with words from the current thinkers of our time: namely authors who wrote great books like Robert Greene, Mj Demarco, …

@ShaneAParrish Be obsessed or be average. A great book. Especially the audio version done by the author himself.

@goodreads Quit: The Power of Knowing When To Walk Away by @AnnieDuke

@DearS_o_n The Art Of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

@goodreads "In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero." —Charlie Munger

@goodreads Finishing up this masterpiece by Will Storr The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It

@ImSashankG @goodreads @RobertGreene I learned from this book, the importance of right mentors, and going broad after going deep in a subject to maximize creativity. Also to listen to your inclinations early on.

@ionexiss @goodreads This book felt like a Hollywood movie based on real stories… I loved the techniques and still remember some of them: - mirroring: repeat the last 3 words for others to elaborate - labeling: label the emotions of the counter party - Silence and tactical empathy…

@rebpic @goodreads It’s better than good… it’s brilliant and packed with great stories for each insight. It changes how you look at everybody’s behavior including yourself

@goodreads Finishing up this masterpiece by Will Storr The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It https://t.…

@ionexiss @goodreads This book felt like a Hollywood movie based on real stories… I loved the techniques and still remem…

@laxmi_priyam @goodreads I recommend Sapien as the important non-fiction book. What do you think so far?

@LeonySampaio @goodreads If you want something more fun than “Thinking Fast and Slow”, pick “The Art Of Thinking Clearly” by Rolf Dobelli. It goes through 52 thinking errors and biases in 3-5 page chapters. Fast and Slow is a bit too detailed and hard to finish in my opinion.

@DearS_o_n The Art Of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

Sapiens. Because the book tries to show an expansive, yet concise, overview of most accepted theories about some big questions of our life over the course of humanity’s evolution. It is pretty eye opening. •Where humans come from? •When they become so dangerous? •Is fire the reason we can think and imagine? •Is gossip the reason for the advancement of our sophisticated language? •When did we started confusing our imagination with physical reality? Or to put it more clearly, when the religions started to appear? •Did we domesticated wheat or wheat domesticated us? •Are all the advancements in science because of capitalism? •human rights, money, nationality. are they real? Or they just exist in our shared imagination? And much more…

@RobertGreene @IcyCortex تحویل بگیر آقا امیر 👆بیا یکم نصیحتش کن به نظرم… Robert have you read “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” by @CalNewportDaily He begs to differ.

- The Millionaire Fastlane (wealth creation) - Sapiens (big perspectives on humanity’s evolution: social, cognition, religion, culture, science, politics…) - The Art of Thinking Clearly (decision-making, thinking biases & judgment errors) - Stop Reading the News (productivity/thinking) - Actionable Gamification (applied psychology) - Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away (decision-making) - So Good They Can’t Ignore You (career) - The Great Mental Models (thinking, judgement) - The Obstacle Is The Way (life philosophy)

@stats_feed - The Millionaire Fastlane (wealth creation) - Sapiens (big perspectives on humanity’s evolution: social, c…

@Powerofbooks3 Never read “Grit” without reading “Quit” immediately afterwards! 1. Grit: the power of passion and perseverance by @angeladuckw 2. Quit: the power of knowing when to walk away by @AnnieDuke

@Powerofbooks3 Never read “Grit” without reading “Quit” immediately afterwards! 1. Grit: the power of passion and perse…

“Reading for curiosity is better than reading for self-improvement,” says Shane Parrish. 25 books recommended by Shane…

What Happens When You Start Reading Daily? Think before you speak. Read before you think. — Fran Lebowitz Here are 10 reaso…

@sufyanmaan To sum up: reading leads to: significant stress reduction, focus extension, more creativity, better communication, better thinking.

@librarymindset - The Millionaire Fastlane - Sapiens

@librarymindset I don’t see how “Ikigai” can change anything, let alone my life

Because the book tries to show an expansive, yet concise, overview of most accepted theories about some big questions of our life over the course of humanity’s evolution. It is pretty eye opening. •Where humans come from? •When they become so dangerous? •Is fire the reason we can think and imagine? •Is gossip the reason for the advancement of our sophisticated language? •When did we started confusing our imagination with physical reality? Or to put it more clearly, when the religions started to appear? •Did we domesticated wheat or wheat domesticated us? •Are all the advancements in science because of capitalism? •human rights, money, nationality. are they real? Or they just exist in our shared imagination? And much more…

@deepfates reading books -> significant stress reduction (50-70%), focus/attention-span expansion, huge improvement in creativity, thinking and judgement (basically you get smarter and wiser if you read the right books that deliver value per paragraph)

اگه انگلیسیت خوب باشه، از جماعت خیلی خیلی زیادی جلو میفتی برا مهاجرت. من با گوش دادن به کتاب داستانهای کوچیک سطح بندی شده و با فیلم و سریال زبان یادگرفتم (بدون هیچ کلاسی) بعدش تونستم بدون هیچ مدرک زبانی کار بگیرم آلمان و مهاجرت کنم. با کتاب داستان های کوچیک سطح بندی شده که سی دی صوتی دارن شروع کن با لول پایین و لهجه آمریکایی. چندیدن بار جمله ها رو بزن عقب حتی تا ۱۰ بار گوش کن تا جایی که بتونی هر جمله رو که شنیدی تکرار کنی کامل با تمام کلماتش. بعد برو جمله بعدی… این کار رو یک ماه به مدت ۳۰-۴۵ دقیقه انجام بده تا معجزه رو ببینی.

@phoebeeebuffaay قدرت گیمیفیکشن برای درگیر کردن آدمها به هر فعالیتی غیر قابل انکاره. من یه کتاب فوق العاده خوندم در این باره. اگه خیلی کنجکاوی که چطور همچین اتفاقی میتونه بیفته پیشنهاد میکنم بخونیش. اسم کتاب راحت میتونست “روانشناسی کاربردی” باشه به جای گیمیفیکیشن! این کتاب منو خیلی باهوش تر کرد!

@ishverduzco @andrewchen I have retold stories I read in this book in many conversations. The Uber, Slack, Tinder, Google+ … struggles and challenges and what made the difference. I felt with every chapter my IQ is going up. I put it next to Blue Ocean Strategy in my bookshelf.

Currently I know what’s going on in the world of politics better than most. I use podcasts, YouTubers, CNN and Fox, FirstPost (Vantage by @palkisu), read tweets from multiple sides of biased media… it became a habit. Let’s see if I stop the news addiction after reading this… “As soon as a piece of news is in the world, it becomes public knowledge and you will not enjoy an advantage in knowing about it.” “You will, however, gain a huge advantage over your peers and competitors if firstly you have a deeper awareness of the background context and secondly, if that context is not widely disseminated. And you will only reach this awareness through intensive reading and thought.” “News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging.” “The media is feeding us titbits that taste palatable but do nothing to satisfy our hunger for knowledge. Unlike books and well-researched long-form articles, the news cannot satiate us.” “We can gobble down as many articles as we like, but we will never be doing more than gorging on sweets. As with sugar, alcohol, fast food and smoking, the side effects only become apparent later.” “The relationship between relevance and media attention seems inverse: the greater the fanfare in the news, the smaller the relevance of the event. I've come to the conclusion that the items journalists don't report on are usually the very things you actually want to know!” “The first internet brows appeared on 11 November 1993 - probably the most significant invention of the twentieth century, after the atomic bomb and the discovery of antibiotics. Do you know what that browser was called?” “Mosaic. If you didn't know the answer, you have a good excuse: it didn't make the news.” “To the media, what's relevant is anything that grabs attention. This is the racket at the heart of the industry's business model. The news they supply us is irrelevant, but it's sold as relevant. 'The relevant versus the new': it's the fundamental battle facing us today.”

Bestselling author Cal Newport explains why you should read more books:

Eight years ago, we embarked on an ambitious journey to create an encyclopedia of big ideas from the world's core discipl…

Do I think this study may be biased because it was funded by “Get Britain Reading” campaign of Galaxy Chocolate? Yes. But do I feel peaceful and relaxed while and after reading? Yes. Conclusion: My personal experience can confirm this number even though the bias may be there.

"Study physics, mathematics, computers, microeconomics, game theory, and persuasion." @naval

@HeyJimBurgess Daily reading. Surrounding myself with super interesting titles and having a 120€ budget for purchasing new titles every month. I put several of them on my coffee table. I wake up, grab a cup of coffee, sit on my couch and pick a book and read for at least 30 mins, every day.