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Books for productivity
531 entries pulled from 54 stacks. Default order is consensus: the number of tracked people who have publicly backed each one.
72 entries
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Atomic Habits
The practical manual for building and breaking habits
Backed by 6 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 5 recommend it, 1 have 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
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The Daily Stoic
366 short Stoic passages with modern commentary, one per day
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Collected thinking on wealth, specific knowledge and happiness
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Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins's memoir: abuse, obesity, three Hell Weeks and the tools he built on the way
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
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Extreme Ownership
SEAL combat leadership principles applied to teams and business
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 study of total absorption and what makes it happen
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Slow Productivity
Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Automation, elimination and the mini-retirement, from 2007
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25 Hours a Day
Building a supplement company while serving as an active duty Army infantry officer
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Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Penguin Press
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2023 book on vision, work, failure and giving back
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Beneath the Surface
Michael Phelps's memoir of his early career, written with Brian Cazeneuve
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Building a Second Brain
The case for one external note store, and four steps for running it
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Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
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Discipline Equals Freedom
A short, deliberately blunt field manual for self-discipline
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Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
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Endurance
Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, from the ship breaking up to the rescue
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Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
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Feel-Good Productivity
Energy and enjoyment as the engine of getting things done
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Find Your WHY
The workbook companion to Start with WHY, written with David Mead and Peter Docker
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman on time management for a finite life, roughly four thousand weeks long
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Give and Take
Why givers cluster at both the bottom and the top of the results
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Hidden Potential
Measuring people by distance climbed rather than height reached
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How to Read a Book
Adler and Van Doren's manual on the four levels of reading
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How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens on the slip-box method behind Niklas Luhmann's output
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's 1980 parenting manual on listening
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I Promise
Picture book of daily promises about school, effort and community, for young children
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Insight
Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the blind spots you cannot see
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Leaders Eat Last
Why some teams pull together and others fall apart
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Linchpin
Godin's 2010 argument for doing work nobody else could have handed in
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius writing to himself, the founding text of practical Stoicism
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson on self-justification
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Never Finished
Goggins's second book: what he did after the first one made him famous
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No Limits: The Will to Succeed
Michael Phelps on the preparation behind his Beijing gold medals
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Originals
How people champion new ideas and hold out against groupthink
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Permission Marketing
The 1999 book arguing for messages people actually asked to receive
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Purple Cow
Godin's 2003 case for building the marketing into the product itself
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Quiet
Susan Cain on introverts in a culture built for talkers
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight's memoir of building Nike from shoes sold out of a car trunk to a global brand
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
Skills first, passion later: an argument against following your passion
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Start with WHY
Simon Sinek's first book, on leading with purpose before product
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The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins's first book, on the countdown that gets you moving
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The 5 Types of Wealth
Bloom's 2025 book on measuring wealth as time, social, mental, physical and financial
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The Art of Possibility
Twelve practices from a conductor and a therapist for changing how you see things
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The Art of Spending Money
On using money rather than accumulating it, and why no formula fits everyone
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The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll on the paper notebook system and what it is really for
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The Diary of a CEO
33 laws for business and life, drawn from hundreds of interviews
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The Dip
When to quit and when to push through the hard middle of a project
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The Essentialism Planner
A 90 day paper planner built around one priority a day
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The Great Mental Models
Four illustrated volumes of thinking tools taken from several disciplines at once
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The Infinite Game
Business as a game with no finish line, built on James Carse's idea
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday's first Stoic book, on turning problems into the way forward
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The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan on the one priority that makes everything else easier
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The Outsiders
William Thorndike on eight CEOs who ran their companies for cash and capital allocation
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The PARA Method
Short guide to sorting every file and note into four folders
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The Practice
Short numbered sections on treating creative work as a daily practice
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The Psychology of Money
Nineteen short chapters on how people behave with money, not on what to buy
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The Rock Says...
Dwayne Johnson's 2000 autobiography, written with Joe Layden at the peak of his WWF run
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks on the commitments that follow the first climb of career and status
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The Tao of Charlie Munger
Munger's lines on investing, business and living, gathered into one place
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's short book on resistance and turning pro
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Think Again
Rethinking and unlearning as skills worth practicing on purpose
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments
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This Is Marketing
The 2018 book that folds thirty years of Godin's teaching into one framework
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This Is Strategy
Strategy as a long commitment to a change, not as a set of tactics
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Together is Better
An illustrated fable about asking for help, made to be given away
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Tools of Titans
Routines, habits and tactics from 200+ podcast guests
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2012 memoir, from Thal to Mr. Olympia to Sacramento
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Tribes
A 2008 book on leading a group that already wants to go somewhere
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Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara on how Eleven Madison Park treated the people who walked in
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