Books I’ve Read
My notes on non-fiction that I’ve read after Dec, 2024. In each book’s page, I summarize how I’m currently applying it in my routines. Inspired by Derek Sivers.
How to Read a Book
You know how when you buy a book and you open it to page one and start reading until you’re done? Well, you’re missing out on a much richer and more enlightening reading experience. There’s a better way.
Inspectional Reading: My favorite thing... read more.
Internal Time
I started a sabbatical recently and I quickly noticed that without an alarm, I started to go to bed progressively later. Now I go to bed at around 4 and I get up at around noon. I’m not sleeping more, it’s just that the schedule shifted. It feels wonderful and... read more.
On Writing Well
Writing is a powerful search mechanism—even when unpublished—that helps you understand your life’s narrative. It’ll help you work through some of life’s hardest knocks: loss, grief, addiction, illness, failure and help you find understanding and solace.
Writing is an act of ego1. Just admit it... read more.
Unlimited Memory
Since high school, I had been memorizing by rote repetition. It turns out that that’s the least effective way to memorize. Our mind is setup to memorize differently. This books showed me how.
Some parts are written in the first person because I’m using this as a workbook and taking... read more.
Useful Not True
Belief generates emotion which generates action1, but what you believe is not true. Adopt a useful belief that generates the emotion which impels the action that you need now to reach your ultimate destination.
Your actions are what define you. Nothing else does. Not what... read more.