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Books for productivity
762 entries pulled from 62 stacks. Items are ordered by how many tracked people are on record about them, including discussion, use and recommendations.
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81 entries
Reset- Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.01
Atomic Habits
The practical manual for building and breaking habits
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.02
Deep Work
The case that uninterrupted concentration is a rare and valuable skill
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.03
The Daily Stoic
366 short Stoic passages with modern commentary, one per day
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.04
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Collected thinking on wealth, specific knowledge and happiness
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.05
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins's memoir: abuse, obesity, three Hell Weeks and the tools he built on the way
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.06
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.07
Extreme Ownership
SEAL combat leadership principles applied to teams and business
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.08
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 study of total absorption and what makes it happen
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.09
Slow Productivity
Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.10
The 4-Hour Workweek
Automation, elimination and the mini-retirement, from 2007
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
25 Hours a Day
Building a supplement company while serving as an active duty Army infantry officer
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Aqua & Bondi
The iMac G3 and the years Apple spent finishing Mac OS X
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Penguin Press
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2023 book on vision, work, failure and giving back
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Beneath the Surface
Michael Phelps's memoir of his early career, written with Brian Cazeneuve
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Building a Second Brain
The case for one external note store, and four steps for running it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Discipline Equals Freedom
A short, deliberately blunt field manual for self-discipline
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Endurance
Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, from the ship breaking up to the rescue
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Feel-Good Productivity
Energy and enjoyment as the engine of getting things done
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Find Your WHY
The workbook companion to Start with WHY, written with David Mead and Peter Docker
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman on time management for a finite life, roughly four thousand weeks long
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Give and Take
Why givers cluster at both the bottom and the top of the results
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Hidden Potential
Measuring people by distance climbed rather than height reached
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Read a Book
Adler and Van Doren's manual on the four levels of reading
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens on the slip-box method behind Niklas Luhmann's output
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's 1980 parenting manual on listening
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
I Promise
Picture book of daily promises about school, effort and community, for young children
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Insight
Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the blind spots you cannot see
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it
- Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques
Photographed step-by-step instruction in classical French kitchen method
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Keep Going
Austin Kleon's ten rules for staying creative once the work stops being new
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Leaders Eat Last
Why some teams pull together and others fall apart
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Linchpin
Godin's 2010 argument for doing work nobody else could have handed in
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius writing to himself, the founding text of practical Stoicism
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson on self-justification
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Never Finished
Goggins's second book: what he did after the first one made him famous
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
Michael Phelps on the preparation behind his Beijing gold medals
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
On Food and Cooking
Harold McGee's reference on what ingredients are and what heat does to them
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Originals
How people champion new ideas and hold out against groupthink
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Permission Marketing
The 1999 book arguing for messages people actually asked to receive
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Purple Cow
Godin's 2003 case for building the marketing into the product itself
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Quiet
Susan Cain on introverts in a culture built for talkers
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight's memoir of building Nike from shoes sold out of a car trunk to a global brand
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon's ten chapters on sharing the process rather than the product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Skills first, passion later: an argument against following your passion
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Start with WHY
Simon Sinek's first book, on leading with purpose before product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon's ten-chapter manifesto on borrowing your way to your own work
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins's first book, on the countdown that gets you moving
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Types of Wealth
Bloom's 2025 book on measuring wealth as time, social, mental, physical and financial
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Art of Possibility
Twelve practices from a conductor and a therapist for changing how you see things
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Art of Spending Money
On using money rather than accumulating it, and why no formula fits everyone
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll on the paper notebook system and what it is really for
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Diary of a CEO
33 laws for business and life, drawn from hundreds of interviews
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Dip
When to quit and when to push through the hard middle of a project
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Essentialism Planner
A 90 day paper planner built around one priority a day
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Food Lab
Home cooking worked out by experiment, grown from the Serious Eats column
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Mental Models
Four illustrated volumes of thinking tools taken from several disciplines at once
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Infinite Game
Business as a game with no finish line, built on James Carse's idea
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday's first Stoic book, on turning problems into the way forward
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan on the one priority that makes everything else easier
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Outsiders
William Thorndike on eight CEOs who ran their companies for cash and capital allocation
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The PARA Method
Short guide to sorting every file and note into four folders
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Practice
Short numbered sections on treating creative work as a daily practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
The Productivity Field Guide
MacSparky
Video course and book that builds a personal system from your roles, not your tasks
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Psychology of Money
Nineteen short chapters on how people behave with money, not on what to buy
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Rock Says...
Dwayne Johnson's 2000 autobiography, written with Joe Layden at the peak of his WWF run
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Second Mountain
David Brooks on the commitments that follow the first climb of career and status
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Tao of Charlie Munger
Munger's lines on investing, business and living, gathered into one place
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's short book on resistance and turning pro
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Wok
Nearly 700 pages on one pan, its physics and the cooking it makes possible
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Think Again
Rethinking and unlearning as skills worth practicing on purpose
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
This Is Marketing
The 2018 book that folds thirty years of Godin's teaching into one framework
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
This Is Strategy
Strategy as a long commitment to a change, not as a set of tactics
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Together is Better
An illustrated fable about asking for help, made to be given away
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Tools of Titans
Routines, habits and tactics from 200+ podcast guests
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2012 memoir, from Thal to Mr. Olympia to Sacramento
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Tribes
A 2008 book on leading a group that already wants to go somewhere
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara on how Eleven Madison Park treated the people who walked in
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it
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