Digital Minimalism Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Digital Minimalism argues for spending your online time on a few carefully chosen activities that support what you value, and missing out on the rest.
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Self-Improvement
Habits, skills, focus, fitness, sleep and learning: what the research supports, what it does not, and small steps you can start this week. Described and sourced, never medical advice.
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Smiles's Self-Help (1859) grew from talks he gave to young men who were teaching each other, and Franklin earlier tracked 13 virtues on a daily chart.
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Find Your Stretch Zone: Where the Comfort Zone Diagram Comes From, and How to Use It
In our version of the diagram, your stretch is a step you can do with effort and perhaps some help.
From Big Goal to Today: How to Turn a Someday Goal Into Something You Can Do Now
Start from your someday goal and narrow it step by step: five years, this year, this month, this week, today, right now.
Pick a Hobby That Fits Your Life: What the Research Says, and 30-Day Starters
Start from your week, not from a list: answer six questions about time, money, company, place, screens and what you want more of.
What Is a Renaissance Man? Where the Idea Comes From, and How to Become One Today
A Renaissance man, in the dictionary's words, is a man of broad intellectual interests accomplished in both the arts and the sciences.
Atomic Habits Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Atomic Habits argues small daily actions add up and systems beat willpower.
Darebee: How to Use the Free Home-Workout Library, and What the Research Says
DAREBEE is a free home-workout library that needs no account: by its own tip, start one level lower than you think; its circuits run about ten to thirty minutes, and its workouts are sorted by type for different goals.
Deep Work Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Cal Newport's Deep Work argues that the ability to focus without distraction on hard work is becoming rarer as it becomes more valuable, and can be trained.
Essentialism Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Greg McKeown's Essentialism argues for doing fewer things, better: decide what matters most, cut most of the rest, and make the important work easier to do.
Getting Things Done Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Getting Things Done says to get every commitment out of your head into a system you trust, decide the next physical action for each, and review it regularly.
Home Workout Hacks: 10 Ways to Get Fitter Without a Gym, Checked Against the Research
Without a gym, short intervals, light loads, push-ups and stairs built fitness, muscle or strength in trials, often small ones.
How to Win Friends and Influence People Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
How to Win Friends and Influence People argues that you get along with people by seeing things from their side, in 30 principles from Carnegie's classes.
Outliers Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Outliers argues that success depends less on what people are like than on where they come from: when they were born, their culture, their family and their chances to practise.
Range Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Range argues that in complex, unpredictable fields, people who sample widely and specialise later tend to do well, while head starts pay off most in rule-bound activities like chess and golf.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People argues that effectiveness starts with character: manage yourself first, then work well with others, then keep renewing.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Franklin's unfinished memoir tells his rise from runaway printer's apprentice and sets out the method he credited: 13 virtues, one a week, checked on a daily chart.
The Power of Habit Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Duhigg describes a habit as a loop of cue, routine and reward; to change one, he argues, keep the cue and reward and swap the routine.
Why We Sleep Summary: The Key Ideas, What Holds Up, and How to Use Them
Walker argues that sleep supports nearly everything the brain and body do, and that many adults get too little.
Older Than You Think, Part 2: Productivity Rules and Where They Come From
Of eleven productivity ideas, four hold up, five are partly true, one is a myth and one we could not date.
Lifemaxxing: A Deep Dive into Optimizing Your Life for Happiness
Lifemaxxing is internet slang for deliberately improving every part of your life at once.
Liquid IV vs Pedialyte: Sodium, Sugar and Key Differences Compared
Per equal volume, sodium and potassium are close; most Pedialyte Classic flavours are level with or slightly above most Liquid I.V. flavours on sodium.