Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen is a true classic in productivity circles. For that reason, I'd put off reading it for ages, figuring I would've already heard its best ideas through other authors who've been influenced by it. To my pleasant surprise, I still found it useful to read about Allen's original system and picked up a few "good tricks" along the way! As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link...

It's been a while since my last post as I've been taking some time off. But I'm back now with a new summary for Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is scarcity? Scarcity is when we have less than we feel we need. While the book mainly discusses money and time scarcity, it can also apply to things like counting calories or...

I've just published a summary for Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World. It's a useful primer on geopolitics and made me examine maps far more closely than I've ever done before! As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS Geography explains many differences between countries and significantly affects geopolitics. Countries’ borders often depend on natural geographical...