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.
October 2025
Articles
Books
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- The Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Downloads
- Duolingo (started studying French)
Quotes
You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you
(Note: I like the reworked version. No man can ever walk through the same river twice. For he is not the same man, and it is not the same river)
Heraclitus
September 2025
Note on 07/10/25: Ah September, where did you go. I found myself immersed at work and got far less reading done than I'd hoped. Such is life.
Articles
Books
- The Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter
- Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
- Just Fucking Send It, Ian Stanley
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
Downloads
Quotes
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
Mike Tyson
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
Scott Adams
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
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
- 3 Characteristics of an Educated Man
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.
- So Good They Can't Ignore You, Cal Newport
Downloads
Quotes
Michael Muttiah
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
Sticks 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
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charlie Finley
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy Graham
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard