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Jan 12, 2024
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Books I Read in 2023 and Why You Should TooHere’s what I read in 2023 and why you should read these books too (in no particular order):
Jan 12, 2024
Jan 12, 2024
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2 Free Apps That Effortlessly Changed My WorkflowAnd continually boost my productivity year-over-year.
Oct 5, 2022
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7 of My Biggest Pet Peeves When It Comes to American EnglishYou should learn them… and then avoid them.
Sep 28, 2022
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Sep 28, 2022
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2 Words to Remove from Your VocabularyWhy? Because they’re made up.
Sep 27, 2022
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Sep 27, 2022
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PSA: 5 Underused but Fantastic WordsFive words you can throw into almost any conversation to really get your listener’s attention.
Sep 26, 2022
Sep 26, 2022
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How to Improve Your Problem-Solving Capability in Five Minutes per DayA common strategy that I use to improve my problem-solving capability is what I call “Habitual Problem Solving.”
Sep 23, 2022
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Sep 23, 2022
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10 Ways to Shop More SustainablyShopping sustainably doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive.
Sep 22, 2022
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Sep 22, 2022
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Slowness is the Secret to Happiness“I’ve worked all my life, but I’ve always worked slowly, taking my time.”
Sep 20, 2022
Sep 20, 2022
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13 Podcasts You Didn’t Know You NeededIf you’re like me, you love finding new podcasts to listen to. Whether you’re commuting, working out, or just need something to keep you…
Sep 15, 2022
Sep 15, 2022
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This past year in books (2020): what I read and what I learned.Below is a list of the books I read in 2020, a year filled with too much quiet time at home. If you haven’t read my last few years of…
Jan 17, 2021
Jan 17, 2021
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What I Learned: Designing Your LifeA short distillation of Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020
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This past year in books (2019): what I read and what I learned.Below is a list of all the books I read this past year, including a short list of Blinkist summaries that I either read or listened to…
Apr 4, 2020
Apr 4, 2020
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This past year in books (2018): what I read and what I learned.Below are the 10 books I read this past year and the 10 things (in one sentence or less) I learned from them. This year, I trended toward…
Jan 10, 2019
Jan 10, 2019
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What Is the Baseline?… is the wrong question to be asking.
Oct 4, 2018
Oct 4, 2018
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What I Learned Talking to a PlantOver the last month, I decided to try adding a gratitude “step” to my daily routine. In this case, it entailed speaking to an unnamed water…
Apr 10, 2018
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Apr 10, 2018
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This past year in books (2017): what I read and what I learned.Below are the 25 books I read this past year and the 25 things (in one sentence or less) I learned from them.
Dec 26, 2017
Dec 26, 2017
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What I Learned: KitchenBanana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen (1993) introduces the reader to Mikage, the female protagonist, with the death of a loved one, an isolating…
May 8, 2016
May 8, 2016
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What I Learned: BotchanBotchan, by Natsume Sōseki, is a simple story of a young man from Tokyo who becomes a math teacher in the rural Matsuyama district. As he…
May 8, 2016
May 8, 2016
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What I Learned: Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs de CoranWritten by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Monsieur Ibrahim et Les Fleurs du Coran is a poignant story about an older gentleman and a maturing boy…
May 8, 2016
May 8, 2016
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What I learned: Life of a Party MemberThe Life of a Party Member by Kobayashi Takiji is a thoughtful look into the daily life of a Japanese Communist Party member in the 1930s.
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016