Reading collection
Career Direction
Books about meaningful work, career design, and professional growth.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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01
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon · 2012
How Will You Measure Your Life?
The measure of a life is not the trophy case. It is the strategy your choices quietly prove.
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Sheryl Sandberg · 2013
Lean In
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Seth Godin · 2010
Linchpin
The job is not to wait for a map. The job is to make art generous enough that people would miss it if it disappeared.
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Keith Ferrazzi · 2005
Never Eat Alone
The currency of real networking is generosity, not scarcity. Build a table where people leave better connected than they arrived.
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David Epstein · 2019
Range
The challenge we all face is how to maintain the benefits of breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and delayed concentration in a world that increasingly incentivizes, even demands, hyperspecialization.
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Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010
Rework
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
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Cal Newport · 2024
Slow Productivity
A slower approach to work is not a retreat from ambition. It is how ambition survives long enough to become craft.
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Cal Newport · 2012
So Good They Can't Ignore You
The work you love is usually built after you become useful enough to earn better choices.
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Austin Kleon · 2012
Steal Like an Artist
Every artist is a collector with taste, a thief with ethics, and a maker who changes the evidence by hand.
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Tom Rath · 2007
Strengths Finder 2.0
You cannot be anything you want to be, but you can be a lot more of who you already are.
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Timothy Ferriss · 2007
The 4-Hour Workweek
Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
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Katty Kay, Claire Shipman · 2014
The Confidence Code
Confidence is not the absence of doubt. It is the decision to let action have the final word.
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Seth Godin · 2007
The Dip
Quit the wrong things early so you have the strength to push through the right dip.
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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica · 2009
The Element
The Element is the meeting point between natural aptitude and personal passion.
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Scott H. Young · 2019
Ultralearning
The fastest education is the one designed around reality instead of permission.
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Spencer Johnson · 1998
Who Moved My Cheese?
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
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ADHD & Focus
For the restless and the distracted. Books that meet you where you are.
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Become Hard To Manipulate
A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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