Reading (2025)
A public brain dump of most of the things I've read each month, that have made an impact on me.
This page was first created on the 6th of August 2025. So records began from August. Before that I read nothing, and beat rocks with sticks in the hope of making fire and sound.
August 2025
Articles
- The Blank Sheet: The Note-Taking System You Never Learned
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Use These Simple Strategies to Retain Everything You Read
- The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
- Prince
- Peter Drucker
- Alberto Tomba
- United States declaration of war on Germany (1917)
- You can't kill the rooster
Books
- Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
- Hell Yeah or No , what's worth doing, Derek Sivers
- The Naked Warrior, Pavel Tsatsouline
- Aesop's Fables, The Cruelty of the Gods, Carlo Gebler & Gavin Weston
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- Deep Work, Cal Newport
- Alcoholics Anonymous, Comes of Age: A Brief History of A.A. , Bill W.
Downloads
Quotes
When the white man came, we had the land and they had the Bibles; now they have the land and we have the Bibles.
- Dan George, Canadian Indian chief, 1952.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today--it is for a vast future also."
Abraham Lincoln (December 3, 1861)
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"I have been saying for many years, that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline."
Peter .F.Drucker
"The fact is...that in modern society there is no other leadership group but managers. If the managers of our major institutions, and especially of business, do not take responsibility for the common good, no one else can or will."
Peter .F.Drucker
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent T. Lombardi
"Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best."
President Woodrow Wilson, April 2, 1917
Stick in a bundle are unbreakable.
Kenyan proverb
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon