Highlights from all books

My central takeaway from this book was the concept of gumption/Sorgfalt and its role in achieving flow. https://blog.felixzieger.de/sorgfalt-gumption/

Every strategy has a kernel consisting of a diagnosis, policies and coherent actions. If those elements are not clear for something that is called strategy, it's bad strategy. Rumelt gives many examples for bad strategy. Good strategy always takes into account how things really are. I took notes https://notes.felixzieger.de/#/page/strategy%20is%20explanation

The book introduces Dynamic Quality as a pointer towards that which cannot be described with words. I liked the observation that higher forms of static quality allow greater degrees of freedom. I also found value in the idea of hatches, which reminds me of thinking about failure modes.

I took away that some of my fears have a deep connection to fundamental limitations of every human-like life span, limitedness in perspective, and limited power to change things. This realization helped me to accept more of my fears. Acceptance is a very powerful state of mind for opening up to more of what is actually happening from moment to moment.

Describes mental models and strategies around org design informed by Conway's Law.

A useful model for observations made in work and life situations.

A semi-historical novel covering WWII and early-internet endeavors that touch mathematics, business, and friendship.

A guide that lays out a path for meditation. My key takeaway were a simple meditation routine, I describe in this post blog.felixzieger.de/thoughts-on-meditation/ and the roles of awareness and attention in conscious experience. I read 30% or so and found it very valuable. I stopped reading because I was not interested in reading about meditation stages I felt I was still far away from.

A calming, flowing read about Tao.

Helped me to realize just how powerful carefully phrased questions can be.