Highlights from all books
Some books may contain spoilers
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
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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.
Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais
Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Mind Illuminated by Yates, Immergut, Graves
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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.
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Some concepts that I can remember >10 years after reading first about them: two systems, cognitive ease, anchoring, priming, availability heuristic.