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21 Dec, 27 tweets, 14 min read
An exercise to read more & better quality books is to select books you want to read the year prior.

I go through recommendations, problems, passions, & general interests to select impactful & moving books.

Here are 30 books 📚 I've researched & hope to read in 2021.
Psycho-Cybernetics

An exploration of mindset, success & identity.

I want to read this to work on altering negative thought patterns I've compounded over time and want to make happiness more of a habit.

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The Red Book

A psychological and subconscious self-experimentation by one of the greatest minds in psychology.

Soul Exploration.

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When the Body Says No

A holistic look of how emotion and psychological stress lead to chronic illness.

"When we have been prevented from learning how to say no, our bodies may end up saying it for us.” — Gabor Maté

My body has begun the rebellion.

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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Rediscovering and unlocking imagination.

On how to let your body and mind flow to say yes to the right moments.

Heard this is a good book for thinkers who want to get more into their body.

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Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

Don't Drift Through Life of the "devil" will control you.

For those navigating adversity, uncertainty, and big life changes.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor."

Philosophy of meaning. Classic.
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory

We desire something because someone else desires it.
Mimetic Conflict arises due to the scarcity of shared despite.
A Scapegoat is picked to resolve the conflict.

Grand Theory

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Ways of seeing the world and gaining knowledge through patterns, symbols and shapes.

An Aboriginal critique of western culture. Going back to the roots of human wisdom.

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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Generalists are a path to creative exploration and more flexibility in ever-changing environments.

I've been recommended this book a ton, I delayed reading as I know I already agree w/ the premise.

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

An Exploration of the Theory of Constraints in Business.

How the flow of work through organizations determines it's success or failure.

Another classic book that I put off, but want to get to.

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The Content Trap

How to get content strategy right and get noticed in the digital world.

Focus on connections between users, products, activities.
Focus on what makes users share.

Geared towards corporates but framing could be useful for simplicity.

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Breakthrough Advertising

The Art of Copywriting

A classic book that breaks down the elements of copywriting, how to write a headline & ads that sells.

"Learn to sell, learn to build, if you can do both, you will be unstoppable.”

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SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff

The Art of Selling

A Sales format based on asking questions. Well researched and dense wisdom.

Another classic book.

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Storytelling with Data

How to effectively communicate with data.

Storytelling is another skill I want to invest in and I'm drawn to exploring data.

As information grows meaning-making from data becomes ever more important.

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The Psychology of Money

Behavioral finance education & a better understanding of money and markets.

I'm a fan of Morgan Housel's writing as was looking for more principle-oriented finance books.

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Several Short Sentences About Writing

Focus on writing at the sentence construction level.

I'm continuing to develop my writing and hope to continue to make this one of my primary habits.

This book focuses on brevity and clarity.

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Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Exploration of the problem of design at an elemental level by the famous architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander.

Philosophy of Design.

Sharpening my builder & creative foundations and mental models.

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The Design of Everyday Things

How Humans interact with objects and the science and craft of design thinking that goes into making things feel natural.

Another frequent recommendation and classic that's been on my list forever.

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Dune

A classic space opera that inspired many other famous modern science fiction.

I want to read this before the movie comes out as well as learn from the origin of this genre.

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

Drama and Thriller with a historical fiction exploration of Jamaica in the 70s. The homeland of my parents.

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Historical Fiction on the Witch Trails.

Recommended for it's beautiful writing.

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The Book Thief

A book narrated by Death during Nazi Germay of 1939.

Intense historical fiction with deep adventure.

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Reincarnation Blues

A man who is in love with Death who is Reincarnated thousands of times.

Was recommended this by a crush.

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Turtles All the Way Down

Some Young Adult fiction to put me in my feels.

I really enjoyed reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green many years back and a number of friends recommended this.

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The Three-Body Problem

This will be read attempt number 2. First tried on audible but couldn't get as engaged.

A TON of people have recommended this and I want to give it another shot on kindle instead of audiobook.

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The Prophet

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran, originally published in 1923.

An alternative look at the way life could and should be lived.

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24 Dec
Prepared for next years reading before I finished this year's target, which I just crossed 🏁

The turbulence of this year had crushed my focus & my procrastination levels are at an all-time high.

Still, we default to our level of training & planning.

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I've already purchased 2021's books and organized the sequencing that would be ideal to read based on length, category and seasonality.
I also like to know which genres are overweighted so that I can balance out my reading.

I added in more fiction, and might decrease business and increase design.
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23 Dec
Journaling is the practice that cultivates the skill of introspection, awareness, and intuition.

It's also the cheapest form of therapy closest to working out.

✍️ Here are different types of journals you can utilize.
1/ Empathy Journal: Writing the story of other people, imagining their experience and viewpoint.

Integrating this kind of journal helped me move away from "I" and "Me" and closer to "You" and "We" or a specific person.

Training me to mirror the emotions of others as a skill.
2/ Day Journal: Writing about your experiences of the day.

The most common type of journal and a great way to minimize false memories from long gaps of time.

Also helps to process events on the day they occurred rather than months later.
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4 Dec
Working on a generalized learning/skill tracking, planning & development framework that's maintainable within PKM tools.

Maps across the following:
Skills
Knowledge
Information
Habit
Mindset

What are some examples of how you think about organizing your learning/skills?
I'm exploring the Taxonomy around these areas. It is very graph-oriented but will probably start at the table design level.

i.e for Programmers

Computer Science > SWE > Front-End > Javascript > React > UI Component Design

Computer Science > SWE > Back-End > Javascript > Node
I tend to group by:

Skills I need to Learn (motivation/obstacle)
Skills I want to Learn (motivation/curiosity)
Skills that should be prioritized
Skill-dependent Skills
Time-dependent Skills
People-dependent skills
Resource-dependent skills
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25 Nov
Questions that I ask myself when & after reading 🤔📚

What did I like?
What did I dislike?
What do I disagree with?
What was surprising?
What ideas or statements changed my belief?

1/ Question for you: What question would you add❓
2/ What problems are discussed?
What questions does the book try to answer?
What questions does the book answer well?
What can I teach from answers?
What did I learn from the answers?
What questions does the book fail to answer?
3/ What categories does this book fit into?
What keywords or topics come up a lot?
What where the key takeaways?
What is the book telling me to do (directive)?
What books inspired this book?
What other book would be this book's antagonist?
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16 Nov
Introducing the B.A.G.E.L 🥯 method for progressive meaning-making with highlights/flags for the books you read.

- B. Big Idea 🔵
- A. Antagonism 🔴
- G. General Noteworthy 🟡
- E. External Reference 🟠
- L. List of Notable Ideas 🟢

Make your reading more fulfilling 📚🧵
You give additional meaning to the pages you highlight when you use post-it flags or colored highlights beyond yellow.

Benefits:
- Quick
- Non-Destructive
- Context w/ Meaning
- Skimmable
- Intentional Reading
- Progressively summarize a book, by giving it a shape via colors.
I selected the colors & purpose for each through trial & error over many years.

The flagging method works best for non-fiction and you can slowly build your way up with the colors started for the first letter down.

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2 Nov
Economics & Freedom are inseparable.

Institutions peek into & manage the fate of your life & it gets harder to see how these powers operate & how decisions are made that affect us.

A few books shed light.

The incentive to understand economics is the desire to be free. 🧵 1/46
2/ To see why things are the way they are, Follow the incentives.
3/ A Principal provides the resources, the Agent arranges the resources & acts on behalf of the principal. Incentive problems arise when a principal wants to delegate a task to the agent.
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