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Waking Up - Sam Harris

TL;DR Consciousness is the ever-present field in which sense of self and thoughts can transiently show up. To practice mindfulness is to realize this frequently. I’m more instrumentalist than the author, partly because I didn’t have the interest / stamina more...

10% Happier - Dan Harris

TL;DR Happiness is a skill to see the self and reality as they are. Work your thought-noticing muscle everyday, and you get better at adding space between the thoughts and your response. This detachment, or recognizing the impermanence of your more...

80,000 Hours - Benjamin Todd

TL;DR To find a fulfilling career, get good at skills that help others. Passion will then follow, not the other way around. The book then has many superb resources on decision making , being a more effective human being , more...

A World Without Work - Daniel Susskind

TL;DR Because of technological progress, we are seeing a trend where we will likely have less and less work available for humans. Within this trend, there are problems of inequality of wealth, unregulated power of big tech, and loss of more...

Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers

TL;DR Useful mindsets to consider when figuring out what to work on in life. If it’s a “hell yeah”, then dive right in. No need to have remorse about the alternatives – your life is long enough to have more more...

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