These are notes about impactful books that I've read. The notes are not meant to be comprehensive; I've recorded the parts which were most impactful to me at the time of reading, so that I can better retain the material.
I hope these notes give a sense of what a given book is about, and encourage people to purchase the book if it looks relevant to them. All content in this repository is copyright the book's author(s).
You can view the notes here on GitHub, or as more nicely-formatted HTML here.
- Sentences in quotes are quotes from the book.
- Sentences in parentheses are my personal comments.
- Some books have a "gems" section at the top which contains the parts that I most want to remember.
7 Powers - Hamilton Helmer
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried
Powerful - Patty McCord
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
Slack - Tom DeMarco
An Elegant Puzzle - Will Larson
How Big Things Get Done - Bent Flyvberg
Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks
Shape Up - Ryan Singer
Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
What is Culture For - School of Life
A Guide to the Good Life - William Irvine
Deep Work - Cal Newport
Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
Bringing Up Bébé - Pamela Druckerman
The Happy Sleeper - Heather Turgeon