The Sunday Summary: How to read books, human creations, and changed behavior
The Sunday Summary: How to read books, human creations, and changed behavior
Here’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful!
Blog posts from the past week
How do YOU read books? I talked to a handful of voracious readers to better understand their habits, and here are the results.
What fact would change your mind? Asking someone “what fact would change your mind?” is a powerful things to do, but it’s even better if you ask it of yourself.
We’ll always want human creations. AI is going to create amazing things for us, but we’ll always have a desire for human-made creations as well.
He didn’t just start taking notes. “There is a great line in Bill Walsh’s book “The Score Takes Care of Itself”, and he says that champions behave like champions before they’re champions. I guarantee you, Mitch Rales did not build a $140B company and then start taking notes.”
What do questions lead to? In 2019, I went on a tour of Chernobyl. The Ukrainian guide who explained what led to the nuclear accident said something that stuck in my mind. “Americans grow up with the idea that questions lead to answers,” he said. “But Soviet citizens grew up with the idea that questions lead to trouble.”
The best apology is changed behavior. We all make mistakes, as do the people around us, and a mistake is a perfect reason to change your behavior going forward.
Books that I’m reading
Finished reading “Cues“
Continued reading “Never Eat Alone“
Continued reading “How to Know a Person“
Started reading “The Short List“
Started reading “Dare to Serve“
Tech Rec
Stealing the idea from my friends at the Tech Talk Y’all podcast, I’ll drop in some tech recommendation every week as well.
Dex. Dex is a tool to help you remember to check in with various contacts in your life, with a focus on business. As you meet new people you can load them in Dex and set a time frame (“reach out them every six months”) and it’ll remind you. Better yet, it also keeps an eye on your email, calendar, LinkedIn, and more, and it factors those in and delays the reminders accordingly. It’s a great tool!
It’s amazing, and I encourage you to check it out.
I hope you found some value in this. If you ever have questions, ideas, or disagreements regarding anything I write, please don’t hesitate to reach out.