1-Sentence-Summary: Elon Musk is an intimate account of the life of the man who might be the 21st century’s most important innovator, engineer, and businessman, based on over two years of shadowing him through the ups and downs of his everyday life running Tesla, SpaceX, and four other world-changing companies. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: The movie Escape from Pretoria tells the true story of 3 anti-apartheid fighters escaping from a grueling South African prison in 1979. It’s an extremely intense movie, and that same nail-biting, danger-around-every-corner Pretoria is where ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: Supercommunicators is a guide to connecting more genuinely and efficiently with other people thanks to identifying 3 kinds of recurring conversations, and then aligning with others to help everyone feel heard, validated, and get what they want.  Read in: Favorite quote from the author: What was a conversation that changed your entire life? Try to remember one. Perhaps it was an emotional breakup over FaceTime? An offhand comment that ended up burning an important bridge? Maybe it was a heated family discussion that ultimately helped you find clarity and make an import ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: The Diary of a CEO condenses 33 of the best lessons podcaster Steven Bartlett has learned from hundreds of interviews with great business leaders, creatives, and scientists into concise laws you can apply immediately to build, grow, and continuously improve both your business and your life. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: What does it take to build and lead a million-dollar business? It’s a question thousands of books about entrepreneurship have tried to answer. The truth is that different solutions will work for different people. Every founder just needs one mode ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: Clear Thinking is a guide to making better decisions built on recognizing crossroad moments in everyday life, finding the best path forward with a 4-step framework, and then applying it all to what matters most in life. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: Every morning when I open my browser, I’m greeted by an important reminder from Shane Parrish: “Focus to Win.” It’s a blog post with a big message: “All of the energy that goes toward anything that is not the most important thing comes at the expense of the most important thing.” Most of us know that greatness in any ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: Feel-Good Productivity offers a well-structured toolkit for crafting your own, joy-based, sustainable philosophy for work and life, rooted in 3 pillars and up to 54 science-backed experiments. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: When freshly minted doctor Ali Abdaal was put in charge of running a hospital ward by himself on Christmas Day 2018, things quickly spiraled out of control. Drunks in the hallway, shouting patients, and panicking nurses drove him to the edge. Worst of all, his usual approach of gritting his teeth and doing more no longer seemed to work. Ali ha ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: The First 90 Days delivers an exact, play-by-play roadmap for acing a career transition, be it a promotion or job at a new company, from mentally preparing before the move to adapting when on the role to securing early wins, managing expectations, and aligning yourself with a new team, boss, and culture. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: I’ve never been promoted, but I once promoted someone else. Unfortunately, running a small business is very different from maintaining a publishing schedule, and so eventually, I had to reverse the decision. I should have known bett ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: The Wisdom of the Bullfrog breaks down 18 sayings, mottos, and parables used in the military, which helped admiral William H. McRaven throughout his four-decade Navy SEAL career to lead and inspire himself and others. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: During the US-Afghanistan war in 2009, Navy Admiral William H. McRaven read an article on a plane en route to the battlefield. In it, two university professors explained how the USA could “easily” win. “Just build roads,” they claimed. “Connect all the villages, districts, and provinces, and the local population can ra ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: Automate Your Busywork is a step-by-step guide to getting rid of your most dreaded tasks, fueled by the simple but sophisticated “Automation Flywheel,” which will help you reduce stress, get more done, and find time for your most meaningful work. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: Video Summary Note: This is a sponsored summary. We received an early copy of the book to review, but the summary was fully written by us, as usual. Growing up on a small olive farm in rural Turkey, Aytekin Tank developed a love for systems. “Where humans are messy and complicated an ..read more

I once had a difficult boss. Let’s call him Bernie. Bernie was one of several people I was reporting to, but his requests took, by far, the most of my attention. Hi there! My name is Nik, and whether you have a tricky boss, annoying customers, or that one friend you keep bumping heads with, today, I’d like to show you 3 tangible ways on how to deal with difficult people. Going back to Bernie, the main reason I had to work more for him than anyone else was that his to-dos always came at the last second. “Hey boy, I need you to drive this car down to the dealership!” …and there went my Tuesday ..read more

1-Sentence-Summary: The Infinite Game argues that business is not a competition but an infinite journey, and that to do well in it, leaders must advance a “Just Cause,” build trusting teams, learn from their “Worthy Rivals,” and practice existential flexibility. Read in: Favorite quote from the author: At one point, both Apple and Microsoft invited Simon Sinek to present at their education summits within the span of a few months. Comparing the two experiences after the fact, Sinek noticed something: “At the Microsoft event, the majority of the presenters devoted a good portion of their prese ..read more