<h2>So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
This book falls into the category of books that I like to call “Fast-food books”. They won’t necessarily make you healthier or your mind sounder, but it’ll feel really good while you’re eating them. There’s only so many anecdotes you can digest. The most common criticism that people have with these kind of books are that they could’ve been summarized in a much shorter format - probably a blog post or two....</p>
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<h2>Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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<h2>Winter Sleep (2014) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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<p>Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Check it out on Letterboxd
Over the years, I have increasingly gravitated towards films where supposedly “nothing happens”. Characters talk, no attempt is made to instill a moral point into the minds of the audience, which is usually accompanied with long, patient shots of people existing in their environments. This was an excellent specimen of the same dish.
I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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This book falls into the category of books that I like to call &ldquo;Fast-food books&rdquo;. They won&rsquo;t necessarily make you healthier or your mind sounder, but it&rsquo;ll feel really good while you&rsquo;re eating them. There&rsquo;s only so many anecdotes you can digest. The most common criticism that people have with these kind of books are that they could&rsquo;ve been summarized in a much shorter format - probably a blog post or two.</description>
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Over the years, I have increasingly gravitated towards films where supposedly “nothing happens”. Characters talk, no attempt is made to instill a moral point into the minds of the audience, which is usually accompanied with long, patient shots of people existing in their environments. This was an excellent specimen of the same dish.
I had watched Once Upon a Time in Anatolia from the same director previously and much like films by Wes Anderson, I could immediately tell this was Ceylan’s film right from the start, although these two directors could not be any more different....</p>
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<h2>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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<h2>Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<h2>Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
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<p>Check it out on Goodreads
There are few books which leave you in a mesmerizing state after having read them. You ponder about it for days to come, want to scream your head off about it to anyone who’d listen, and then dwell in this fear of picking up another book because how can something else ever come close to being this perfect! I have felt this way before - first when I’d finished The Complete Sherlock Holmes, later when I was left in a daze for multiple days after finishing the notorious and brilliant House of Leaves, and much more recently when I was unable to sleep after reading Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker....</p>
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<p>This book falls into the category of books that I like to call “Fast-food books”. They won’t necessarily make you healthier or your mind sounder, but it’ll feel really good while you’re eating them. There’s only so many anecdotes you can digest. The most common criticism that people have with these kind of books are that they could’ve been summarized in a much shorter format - probably a blog post or two. The same applies here - only the irony is that it is BECAUSE of those blog posts and the reaction it generated that prompted the author to write a whole book about it.</p>
<p>Probably should have let the blogs say it all.</p>
<p>Well, now that my rant is over, I’d like to list some of the positive things that I got out of this book. While tiring at times, reading through the different stories and the paths ordinary people take to become successful made me appreciate the importance of THINKING about your career. For people in my field (software developers), it can be a daunting task to get ourselves out of the autopilot and start questioning things - which includes the choices that we’ve made for our own careers. But doing exactly that is an important and necessary step towards achieving a fulfilling career.</p>
<p>Give this one a read if you haven’t obsessively read all those countless Quora and Medium posts. Otherwise, skip it.</p>
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