Productivity
Never Play it Safe - Chase Jarvis
Chase Jarvis
This was read for September 2025 book club. Join to get regular posts on books. While part of my is always inspired by these types of books they also seem to be extreme examples of survivorship
Meditations for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman
This is an in progress read for book club. Scroll to the bottom to see the related posts. Oliver Burkeman asks us to spend one day on each chapter, ideally, and evaluate how hard we are on ourse
Clear Thinking - Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish, of Farnham Street fame, brings us a book that is intended to help us think clearly. The first half is all about defining the enemies of clear thinking and the second is about putting c
The Siren's Call - Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
The Siren's Call looks at how the attention economy monopolizes our attention in ways that we don't want. We don't really want to doom scroll, but it's hard to fight the generated content that gets p
Atomic Habits - James Clear
James Clear
This is my second read through Atomic Habits (my original review) and I didn't come into it thinking it would be all that great. I expected that all these years later I'd look at it like many product
Against Creativity - Oli Mould
Oli Mould
In Against Creativity, Oli Mould, takes a critical look at the creativity the world wants to push on us. Your boss cuts funding and says that you need to be "creative" to provide the same level of
Saving Time - Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell
This is Jenny Odells attempt to make sense of time outside of how capitalism tells us we should view time, the relentless pursuit of productivity at the expense of inhabiting the life around us. This
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
Cal Newport
Slow Productivity is Cal Newport’s 4th book looking at how to be productive and maximize your career. As such it blends portions of all the previous books, adding a few bits and rehashing many of the
Breaking Busy - Alli Worthington
Alli Worthington
In Breaking Busy, Alli Worthington, takes a look at how being "busy" is intoxicating, how we wear it like a badge of honour. The whole book has strong Christian overtones with much talk about forgett
A Simplified Life - Emily Ley
Emily Ley
Ley is writing a book, predominately to women, about how to simplify your life. Pair down your commitments, cut back on all the stuff you have in your house, don't fall into consumer culture. This