Highlights from all books

Lila by Robert Pirsig

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  • 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.

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

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

Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

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

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

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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

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The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

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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.