Five Minute Reads
Bestselling books summarized in five minutes, with one thing to actually do about it.
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"Burnout" by the Nagoskis is about a cycle you never close. Here's the 2-column ledger that shows which ones are still open.
So I put 25+ hours into this book and its 2 companions over about 3 weeks, and I spent most of the first week being wrong about what the argument even was.
So I put 25+ hours into this book and its 2 companions over about 3 weeks, and I sp...
Bezos didn't get a life lesson from this novel. He got 1 question. Here's the 6-page memo template that came out of it
Here's the 6-page memo template that came out of it
So I put 30+ hours into a 245-page novel this month, which is an embarrassing ratio, and most of that was spent chasing a date that doesn’t exist.
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The Book of Enoch was never banned. It's quoted in your Bible
Enoch didn't write it either. It's at least five separate books stitched together, and one of them is an argument about calendars.
The version everyone repeats is that religious leaders found this book too dangerous, voted it out of the Bi...
Bezos's favorite novel is about regret. The butler's mistake wasn't playing it safe.
The version going around says he found the book in 1987. It wasn't published until 1989. That's not the only thing the popular retelling gets backwards.
The story goes that a young Bezos read a sad novel about a butler, got spooked, walked...
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