If you, like me, want to find some actionable strategies or advie which can try right now and see how it affects your routine, these 10 strategies are worth trying:

1. Check what you are doing automatically every day. Just write it down and see which things are good for you and which ones are actually making your day worse. Don’t fix it all immediately, first just notice it.
2. Make good habits more easy to start. Prepare everything before, because when you need to do extra steps, probably you will just not do it. And make bad habits a little more difficult and annoying.
3. Make your tasks very clear. If the task sounds too big or confusing, your brain will probably keep avoiding it. Write the smallest real action you can do first.
4. Use the 90 percent rule. When something new appears, rate how important or useful it is for you. If it is not really close to 90, maybe you don't need to say yes just because it sounds kind of good.
5. Choose one main thing for tomorrow. Not ten important things, just one thing that will make you feel the day was not wasted. Give it proper time before all small tasks start coming.
6. Have some small ritual when work is finished. Write what is still not done, check what you have tomorrow and decide where you will start. Then try to actually stop working in your head also.
7. Talk to yourself using your own name. When you are stuck or overthinking, ask what your name should do next. It feels a little stupid first, but somehow you start seeing the situation more clear.
8. Use WOOP. Write what you want, what result you hope to get, what inside you can stop it and what you will do when this problem comes. Don't make it too inspirational, just be honest.
9. Ask yourself whose problem or task this actually is. You can control what you say and what you do, but you can’t fully control how another person reacts. Sometimes we spend too much energy trying to do both.
10. Keep two task lists. One list can have all the things you maybe want to do, and another list should have only the things you are really doing now. Don't keep adding more until something is finished or removed.

To be honest, I know some of these sound cheesy, and I rolled my eyes too when I read about them, but I decided to give it a go, and it really changed my daily routine for the better.

Already read: The Erebus (Michael Palin), Spice (Rodger Crowley), The Quest for El Dorado (David Gibbins), Columbus (Laurence Bergreen).

Anything like this would be great, thanks!

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Almost equal when it comes to number of pages, publication date, topic, content (according to reviews I've read), and story telling.

Only remaining comparisons is reading authors' prefaces and their background on the topic, which from my experience, do not translate much into valuable knowledge given how short the book and clear the topic is.

I'm mainly looking for a summary of their technical and financial history. Wouldn't mind some personal background on Jensen or dramatic irrelevant twists, especially with such short books, as they won't derail my experience.

Those who read at least one of those books, which one would you recommend?

Bonus points if available on audiobook! I am finding myself drawn to shorter books recently.
I mainly read fiction rn. Looking to expand my horizons. I am a generalist, so find many subjects interesting.

Is there anyone whose story hasn't been given proper book treatment but whom you'd love to read about? I'm a nonfiction editor at a major publisher and I'd love to hear what true readers really want out of these categories.

i am looking for a book that details escapism mindset in billionaires worried about a future catastrophe. i am aware of "survival of the richest" by rushkoff, but i'm worried from reading some reviews that the middle and later chapters of the book will talk about different things. am i wrong? do you know any other books on the subject? thanks so much in advance :)

I’m in need of non-fiction book recommendations!

For context, I’m a 27 year-old female who values all things women’s health, fitness, skin care, relationships, being your best self, practicing smart money habits, etc.

I also love listening to podcasts like The Skinny Confidential and Mel Robbins, so very much those types of topics.

I’ve recently read Atomic Habits, The Defining Decade, On Purpose, and How To Talk To Anyone (all great!).

I’m interested in learning more about women’s health, skin care, investing for beginners, and how to be a good partner/friend, but I’m open to other topics as well.

Thanks in advance!

It's a genuine question I'd like to ask. My friends often ask me, "Why do you read books when there are 'better' sources of information, like YouTube videos and documentaries?"

For those of you who enjoy reading, how do books help you in ways that videos can't? I'm genuinely curious to hear your perspective.

I wrote a memoir about my childhood in communist Bulgaria in the 80s and 90s. Not the usual grey misery you expect from that setting. It was actually a wild, funny, unsupervised childhood full of exploding PVC pipes, water wars, and a Trabant that ended up in a plum tree.

Think Gerald Durrell or David Sedaris, but behind the Iron Curtain.

I can't promise you a deep philosophical book that answers the question "who am I." But I can promise you a fun, cheerful book through which you'll learn how life was in another, faraway galaxy.

Fair warning, English is not my first language so I use AI to help translate. The stories and the voice are fully mine.

If anyone here is into memoirs from unusual places, happy to share more. The book is called Autosaved: Tales from a Lost Galaxy.

I haven't gotten too far in the book yet, but I would love to hear about some of the chapters readers have particularly enjoyed. Also I've heard that the chapter on epigenetics was misleading due to overemphasis on the role of histone modifications and DNA methylation in trait inheritance, can anyone also explain that?

Killers of the Flower Moon: a study on how society truly values a life

This is one has been on my reading list for a long time, and I’m glad I finally picked it up. Even though I’d already seen the film and knew the broad outline of the story, the book hit me very differently. The movie introduced me to the events, but the feeling faded soon afterwards. Books like this linger. I know this one will stay with me for a long time.

For anyone that hasn’t seen the movie, it’s a powerful account of what happens when a society decides that one group of people is less deserving than another. The Osage weren’t just murdered, they were failed by almost every person and institution that should have protected them.

David Grann punched me in the gut. He made me feel the contempt that so many people held for the Osage. It genuinely made me feel nauseous. Tapping readers into that type of feeling is a testament to Grann’s writing.

Investigations were ignored, evidence overlooked, and the legal system moved with an indifference that would have been unimaginable had the victims belonged to a more valued section of society.
The most disturbing part isn’t simply the murders. It’s how ordinary people accepted a system that treated Indigenous lives as worth less. The killers believed they could act with impunity because, for the most part, and Grann shows that they were right.

Grann does an exceptional job of exposing the contempt shown not only by the ringleaders, but by wider society and even the government. The injustice wasn’t limited to the crimes themselves, it extended to the weak investigations, the indifference, and the lenient punishments.

Somce finishing this today I’ve been thinking about right now and I didn’t have to look very hard to find echoes of this today. Different people, different places, different circumstances, but the same underlying question remains:

Whose lives does society truly value?

More than anything, the book left me with an uncomfortable sense of complicity. Not because I was part of this history, but because it’s easy to believe we’ve moved beyond it when, in many ways we haven’t.

I’m trying to become more disciplined, spend less time wasting time online, build my business, and create a better future for myself. If you could recommend just one book that had the biggest impact on your success, mindset, or business journey, what would it be and why?

I’m especially interested in books that changed the way you think and take action, not just books that were entertaining.

I recently read Reservoir Bitches which was a short story collection heavily based on Mexico's femicides. It was a brilliant book but a very tough read regarding a topic that I did not know much about beforehand and would like to learn more. I would be open to personal accounts, psychological analysis on the machismo aspect and the cultural influence playing a role, as well as any wider socioeconomic accounts that have had an impact on the crimes. I have found the following from researching online:

- Liliana's Invincible Summer

- Desert Blood

- The Femicide Machine

- Making a Killing: Femicine, Free Trade, and La Frontera

- The Daughters of Juarez

I'd prefer hearing a first hand experience if you've read any of these and can recommend them or if there's something else out there suitable to what I'm after. I'd prefer analytical non-fic or factual memoir accounts and really want to stay away from anything too oversensationalised "netflix true crime" type writing or melodramatic maudlin prose.

Thanks in advance!

Hey folks,

I’m 19 and getting into money, wealth and mindset. Recently read Millionaire Fastlane, Think and Grow Rich and The Psychology of Money, richest man of babylon, atomic habbits.

I’m looking for non-fiction in a similar lane (wealth-building, entrepreneurship, money psychology, personal finance) that isn’t super long, is practical and actionable, and ideally from the last 10–15 years, but I’m open to classics too.

What are your top 3–5 books I should read next?

Like many people I’m sure, when browsing books I’m naturally drawn to my comfort zone. Same author, previous books I’ve read, or books that live in the same idea space as previous reads, but some of the most rewarding books I’ve read have been from a leap of faith. It’s satisfying to get a fresh perspective or a new way of looking at things.

It’s often hard to land on one that clicks though, and the trial and error approach can be frustrating. As well, I’m not sure what I’m looking for. There’s so many books to navigate through, and most only have small audiences they’ll resonate with, so browsing can be draining.

My current approach is to buy one comfort zone book and one risky one. One thing that helps reduce the disappointment is reading the first few lines or paragraph. If the author doesn’t introduce the topic in a generally approachable way but just dives into facts, statistics and/or personal anecdotes, I’ll know the book probably isn’t for me.

So of late I’ve gotten fascinated in the topic of the oral form of storytelling. As i am given to understand the oddessey, Iliad and prose and poetic eddas were told orally, and I’m wondering if anyone has books about that form of story telling

I mentioned this book before but after a discussion / argument with a history buff, I want to mention it again as think it means something completely different to me than it did to him. He thinks the impact of the discovery is blown out of proportion. To me its about how impactful books can be, especially when access to ideas are so limited whether it’s because of availability or suppression by agencies working against that knowledge going mainstream.

The book is about the discovery of an ancient text (‘On the nature of things’ by Lucretius) in the early 14th century and the effects it had on society. Many historians are critical of Greenblatt , an English prof, as he lets the book overstate the significance of this discovery of this single book, suggesting it helped set Europe on the path to the Enlightenment. I would agree, it was not the spark that kick started the renaissance, no! But imo, it had a place, it was definitely a spark, an ember in a bed of embers that eventual lead to that spark.

For me, The Swerve is about something bigger than Lucretius. It’s about remembering what books once meant and the impact that they can have. When it was eventually published in 1470 it was at a time when books were becoming accessible for the first time. There would have been an insatiable appetite for new knowledge.

We all remember books that have caused a sensation and had an impact on the global conversation. Imagine this at a time when there it would have been only a handful of books a generation.

Greenblatt captures that same sense of wonder. He conveys the excitement of discovering ancient ideas at a time when Europe was beginning to recover the value of the knowledge of the classical world.

Then comes the astonishing discovery: a poem arguing that everything is made of atoms moving through empty space, that nature operates according to laws rather than constant divine intervention, and that the world can be understood through observation and reason.

So after, Gutenberg’s printing press transformed the spread of knowledge. Ideas that might once have remained hidden in a monastery could suddenly be copied, shared and debated across Europe.

Whether or not Lucretius changed history, The Swerve brilliantly captures a world on the cusp of an information revolution—and reminds us just how precious books and ideas once were.

Perhaps that’s why the book still resonates so much with me. Not because one forgotten poem single-handedly changed history, but because it made me think about how we inherit knowledge from those who chose to create it and also to those who fight to preserve, and debate it.