HACKER Q&A
📣 petecooper

What book(s) changed your routine(s) in 2023?


I've had a pretty rotten year dealing with an unfolding identity crisis, and I need change.

I'm starting back into reading after a long time away, and I'm curious about any notable book(s) you read this year that changed stuff in your world.

Thank you.

  👤 chiefalchemist Accepted Answer ✓
Mind you, your bar might be too high for these, but I found useful bits from both of the Michael Easter books: "The Comfort Crisis" and "Scarcity Brain."

https://eastermichael.com/

Along the same lines, the two Annie Duke books that I read, "Thinking in Bets" and "Quit", were both entertaining and insightful.

https://www.annieduke.com/

And tho' I thought it could have half the pages, I found inspriation from Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act".

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/10/the-creative-a...

If you have a creative side and haven't yet read "The War of Art" then read that instead of the Rubin book. It's shorter and that focus makes it more inspiring.

👤 reify
The Compassionate Mind - Gilbert, Paul - 2009

I had forgottten about this book until an old psychotherapist friend mentioned it.

Excellent book for these stressful and chaotic times when we just want to be and feel like we are human beings and not human doings and automotons.