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[To not read] is like trying to build up material culture from scratch in each generation. No one in his right mind would want to start reinventing the wheel, fire, electricity, and the million objects and processes that we now take for granted as part of the human environment. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you. –Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos – Learning to Lead

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“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.” — John Milton

Through reading, you have the privilege to learn through other’s experience. You explore unseen worlds. You get to know people you would have never met. Reading forces Deep Focus.

These booknotes vary greatly in effort and length. Some, like Deep Work, are extensive, including action items, chapter summaries and key points. Others consists of a few sentences jotted down. Either way, I hope you discover an intriguing idea or your next read!

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Cover	Title	Read
	The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1	Mar 27, 2024
	Digital Liturgies	Mar 25, 2024
	Tress of the Emerald Sea	Mar 10, 2024
	JavaScript – The Good Parts	Feb 19, 2024
	To Save Everything, Click Here	Jan 2, 2024
	The Name of the Wind	Nov 26, 2023
	Boyd – The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War	Nov 5, 2023
	Company of One	Nov 5, 2023
	Extreme Ownership – How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win	Feb 6, 2023
	The Way of the Heart – The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers	Nov 30, 2022
	So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love	Oct 29, 2022
	2084	Sep 23, 2022
	Oathbringer	Sep 9, 2022
	Arcanum Unbounded	Jul 29, 2022
	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	Jul 26, 2022
	Deep Work – Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World	Jul 9, 2022
	Words of Radiance	Jun 29, 2022
	David and Goliath	Jun 24, 2022
	Grit	Jun 7, 2022
	Red Rising	Jun 5, 2022
	Miracle and Wonder	May 7, 2022
	Blink	Apr 13, 2022
	Shadows of Self	Mar 18, 2022
	Outliers	Mar 14, 2022
	The Tipping Point	Feb 19, 2022
	The 12 Week Year	Dec 31, 2021
	Yes To Life	Dec 30, 2021
	Becoming	Dec 29, 2021
	Seven Brief Lessons on Physics	Dec 29, 2021
	Paul: A Biography	Dec 29, 2021
	The One Thing – The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results	Dec 25, 2021
	The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, 4)	Dec 25, 2021
	Educated	Dec 12, 2021
	The Physics of Climate Change	Dec 6, 2021
	The Long Loneliness	Dec 4, 2021
	Atomic Habits – An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones	Dec 2, 2021
	The Mountains Sing	Nov 18, 2021
	The New Testament in Its World	Nov 4, 2021
	No One Is Talking About This	Oct 17, 2021
	Assassin’s Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)	Oct 16, 2021
	Royal Assassin	Sep 6, 2021
	Disappearing Church	Sep 1, 2021
	Assassin’s Apprentice	Aug 23, 2021
	When the Church Was a Family: Recapturing Jesus’ Vision for Authentic Christian Community	Aug 18, 2021
	The Three-Body Problem	Aug 18, 2021
	Plugged In: Connecting Your Faith with Everything You Watch, Read, and Play	Aug 13, 2021
	Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War	Aug 5, 2021
	Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad	Aug 4, 2021
	The Tattooist of Auschwitz	Aug 2, 2021
	Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood	Aug 2, 2021
	Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town	Jul 25, 2021
	[[The Light of All That Falls (The Licanius Trilogy, #3	3)]]
	We Can End Bible Poverty Now: A Challenge to Spread the Word of God Globally	Jul 21, 2021
	A Promised Land	Jul 7, 2021
	The Truths We Hold: An American Journey	Jun 15, 2021
	Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia	Jun 7, 2021
	When Caring is Not Enough: Resolving Conflicts Through Fair Fighting	May 29, 2021
	The Bomber Mafia	May 15, 2021
	Stuff my dad never told me about RELATIONSHIPS	May 13, 2021
	Persepolis Rising (The Expanse 7)	May 11, 2021
	[[An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2	2)]]
	Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered	Apr 24, 2021
	How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist	Apr 18, 2021
	Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse 6)	Apr 13, 2021
	Warbreaker	Mar 24, 2021
	Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead	Mar 17, 2021
	Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative	Mar 12, 2021
	Elantris	Feb 28, 2021
	The Shadow Of What Was Lost	Feb 6, 2021
	The Shack	Jan 17, 2021

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• C.S. Lewis on reading old books: lewis-incarnation-intro.pdf