Book Reviews
Honest, in-depth reviews of the books we read — with ratings, key takeaways, and who should read them.
Atomic Habits
by James Clear · 2018
Clear makes habit-building concrete: change the conditions around an action, then make it easier to repeat. Useful for getting started, with limits the motivational language can obscure.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters · 2014
A compact argument for building something meaningfully different. Strong on questions abou...
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries · 2011
A practical framework for testing a business idea before committing too much to it. Most u...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Kahneman offers a vocabulary for examining judgement. Best read slowly, with the two-syste...
Deep Work
Cal Newport · 2016
A strong case for protecting attention, with advice that needs adapting to the amount of c...
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
A readable collection about behaviour, expectations and money. Its value is in the questio...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011
Harari turns a very large history into an accessible argument about human cooperation. An ...
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig · 2020
Matt Haig turns the question “What if I had chosen differently?” into an accessible, hopef...