Reading Recap: December 2024

Wrapping up December with five more book to reach an even 60 for the year. 🎉

🩹Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Why do we remember some ideas and why do we immediately forget others. This book covers techniques to create and examples of ideas that people will remember.

🏫Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

A radical examination of how schools can be counterproductive to learning. Illich has some interesting ideas on peer-to-peer learning and how that could be implemented in a pre-internet world.

💗Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Frankl’s approach to therapy focused on helping patients find meaning in their lives. His philosophy survived and evolved during Frankl’s time as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. He observed how those who found meaning in their suffering there were able to live with more humanity and purpose.

📖Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Taking life as it comes, doing your duty, and focusing on what you can control.

🐧Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber

A cute, quasi graphic novel that illustrates how to lead organizational change. More relevant than ever as organizations evolve and change with the rapid advancements in AI.