Despite a lovely sojourn in Italy where I didn’t get any reading done, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I still managed my apparent quota of one book per week – and that’s not counting the three others I began but didn’t finish! Anyway, without further ado, here are my books of April:
Deep Work (Newport) – on the importance of putting in enough focused time and effort into any project in order to reap the most benefits. Ties in nicely with books like Discipline is Destiny and Learn Like A Pro. (4/5)
The startup of you (Hoffman) – no surprises concerning the content here; the author proposes to plan your life and work as if you were a startup company. Not a great book, but some lessons even so: It’s always Day 1. (3/5)
Learning how to learn (Oakley) – the second title I read by Oakley. I hadn’t realised it was aimed at kids, but regardless of that it isn’t as good as Learn Like A Pro, so I can’t recommend this, unless you have tweens. (2/5)
Doing Good Better (Macaskill) – an interesting title, written by the man who authored What We Owe The Future, who is also the co-founder of 80,000 Hours. It covers much the same territory as the latter, i.e. how best to spend your time and money, and provides a lot of food for thought. (4/5)
There you go. I’m going to branch out and try some other stuff in May – time to move away from all these do-things-better books, and into other areas. Here Be Dragons?!