Self-Help

Books

Cover for Your Money Or Your Life

Heart’s in the right place I guess, but the authors got super lucky buying bonds when rates were high in the 80s so good luck replicating that

Cover for Deep Work

A good idea, but this is a New Yorker article worth of content stretched into a book.

Cover for How Big Things Get Done

tldr: Break big projects into small manageable tasks, understand the odds, and plan carefully

Cover for On the Road

Didn’t speak to me, but perhaps I was too young

Cover for The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Like many of these types of books, a bit padded to get to book length. Kondo comes off as quite a bit kooky, but the general intention and advice is good and can inspire some good habits.

Cover for Atomic Habits

Some good ideas, but could have been condensed into a long article.

Cover for The Creative Act

Zen advice on the creative process, can dip in and out of the book depending on where you are in a project. I wish he’d used specific examples from his work, but the book is probably already a bit longer than it could be anyway.

Cover for A Million Little Pieces

No idea how anyone ever though this was a true story.