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I'm so sick of it. Google can't be destroyed soon enough for me.
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Thanks. But I ask objectively, not in comparison to Atomic Habits. And, perhaps, if there's any book better than the two... feel free to comment.
"Tiny Habits" by Dr. BJ Fogg, a research associate at Stanford, is my preferred book (though my view is more boring: I think "Atomic Habits," "The Power of Habit," and "Tiny Habits" are all worth a glance-through). From my personal experience, I remembered the most from this book years later, in contrast to the other two. Specifically, I still use the idea of "prompts" for behaviour change. I remembered how it's typi…
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Not sure if you're serious or sarcastic, but I completely agree. Productivity hacking culture needs to die a painful death. Life is about so much more than just maximizing output...
Life is about identifying your values and finding ways to work towards those values. If he does that with productive evenings instead of watching TV, I am sure that gives him purpose and makes him happy.
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Good point. I was so frustrated at how bad the book Atomic Habits was, (in comparison to Power of Habit). It felt like some 20 year old was explaining how to life a good life with all the experience 20 year olds have. Lots of idealistic ways to organize things. Lots of mental gymnastics to supposedly make you more productive. I did like the 'improve yourself 1% a day', but I did that with a spin bike and quickly got…
>Meanwhile Power of Habit was more like a pop-science book with the goal of teaching you brain science and apply it. I'd pay 50k-100k for that book, it has been revolutionary. I'm off all drugs, I can quit social media whenever I want(I'm only back because of LLMs), I quit video games, I made my evenings productive instead of hedonistic. Is it that good?
Alternatives (some from the comments here): https://www.thestorygraph.com/ https://oku.club/ https://www.librarything.com/ https://joinbookwyrm.com/ https://bookrastinating.com/ (I haven't tried any of these yet.)
LibraryThing is like a poor GoodReads, that's it.
So no.
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ChatGPT is the best book recommender I've used. Tell it a few books (even one book works) you like and it will give you solid recommendations.
It is good, but only for books published before the training cutoff date right? That’s sometime in 2021.
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Good point. I was so frustrated at how bad the book Atomic Habits was, (in comparison to Power of Habit). It felt like some 20 year old was explaining how to life a good life with all the experience 20 year olds have. Lots of idealistic ways to organize things. Lots of mental gymnastics to supposedly make you more productive. I did like the 'improve yourself 1% a day', but I did that with a spin bike and quickly got…
> I'm off all drugs, I can quit social media whenever I want(I'm only back because of LLMs), I quit video games, I made my evenings productive instead of hedonistic. Good god, how scary. Thanks for the warning!
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> you also track books you want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku I know exactly what books I want to read.
I am into my first thousand books. If I have a queue of 10-20 already purchased (garage, deals, new, offers) and someone recommends a book somewhere such as HN, I add it. I don't think tracking books you want to read is Tsundoku.
I have over two shelf feet of books I plan to read and haven’t yet. No that’s a lie, it’s at least four.
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But you don't just track books you've read, you also track books you want to read, which is much harder to remember. I also tag them to indicate if I already own them and in what format (physical, epub, audio). Saves me from purchasing duplicates when I'm at the used book store.
> you also track books you want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku I know exactly what books I want to read.