✂️📕 Why you should destroy your books (and 6 other reading secrets)
Plus . . . free audiobooks and making Peter Drucker your AI career coach.
▶️ 1. NEW VIDEO: Read Smarter Tonight — 7 Techniques in 9 Minutes
Want to remember more of what you read?
Check out our newest video, which reveals the strategies I’ve collected over the years.
In 9 minutes, you’ll learn:
My 3-question technique for summarizing nonfiction books;
Why you should destroy your books instead of treating them like sacred objects;
Why “speed reading” is a total scam;
My simple formula for deciding when to quit a book.
You can watch the video by clicking the image below.
📌 2. PINK RECOMMENDS. Free audiobook • Shoe story • Seggs education • Make Peter Drucker your career coach 📌
🎧 LISTEN: Free audiobook, anybody? My friends at the National Book Foundation will give you one for completing any activity in their Summer Reading Adventure. Just read a book outdoors or visit a Little Free Library or anything else on the list. Then tell them about it — and await your free audiobook from Libro.fm. Details
👟 READ: I’m late to this one, folks. But I’m really enjoying Shoe Dog, Phil Knight’s 2016 memoir about creating the colossus that became Nike. Knight is unusually candid about his own weaknesses and anxieties. And the story of his early days — a company called Blue Ribbon that he launched in his Oregon childhood bedroom at time when running was still an oddball hobby — is fascinating. (Amazon | BN.com | Bookshop | Public library)
🗣️ READ (AND WATCH): Ever wonder why people online say "seggs" instead of "sex" or "unalive" instead of "kill"? Algospeak has the answers. Harvard-trained linguist Adam Aleksic breaks down how algorithms are altering the way we speak and the words we use. The book grew out of his well-researched Etymology Nerd TikTok feed, which is also excellent. (Amazon | BN.com | Bookshop | Public library)
🧭 TRY: Peter Drucker's management frameworks "are absolutely lethal as AI prompts," says EQ4C. So they’ve built a tool that turns the legendary consultant's classic questions into prompts that transform your LLM into a personal business coach. Peak management wisdom meets peak AI.
3. FINAL THOUGHTS: 40 Harsh Lessons I Wish I Knew 40 Years Ago
Our fastest-growing video of the year, which debuted a few weeks ago, offers 40 life lessons that I learned the hard way. The lessons that seem to be resonating most, based on about 1,000 comments, are:
Don’t work with jerks. (No exceptions.)
Raw talent is overrated, persistence is underrated.
Collaborators and mentors are great. But in the end, it’s on you.
Which lessons speak to you? What am I missing? To hear all 40 lessons that took me decades to learn, click the image below.