You’re probably familiar with bad strategy. It’s full of fluff, lofty visions and desirable outcomes, with no clue on how to achieve these things. In Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, Richard Rumelt explains how good strategy is different. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS
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I've just posted a new summary for The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel. As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above (estimated time 25 mins). KEY TAKEAWAYS How to be successful with money: It’s more about psychology and behaviour than being smart. Aim to be reasonable, not rational — what matters is what helps you sleep at night, not what is optimal in theory. The key steps involve:...
My latest summary is for Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, in which Eliezer Yudkowsky pushes back against what he calls "modest epistemology". As usual, the key takeaways are below, and you can find the full summary by clicking the link above. KEY TAKEAWAYS Two competing views on when you should think you may be able to do something unusually well: Inadequacy. We should understand how different systems work and the incentives within them to determine whether we’ll...
I'm happy to say I cleaned up both the All Summaries and Blog Posts archives this month so you can now sort by things like author, title, date, rating and topic. I've kept the old pages for now in case of teething issues—please let me know if you see any! During October, I posted 2 book summaries and 3 blog posts: Book summaries The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef (32 mins) — an accessible book about how we should strive to think more like scouts trying to work out the truth, rather than...