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Digital Exhaustion by Paul Leonardi Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life

- July 06, 2026

What's it about? Digital Exhaustion (2025) explores how everyday digital tools quietly drain your energy by fragmenting attention, distorting social inferences, and amplifying emotional strain. It lays out eight practical rules for reshaping how you use technology so you can reduce burnout, regain focus, and turn your devices into a source of support rather than exhaustion. Do you ever close your laptop feeling wiped out, even though you have physical energy left in your body? That wired-but-empty state fueled by endless emails, chats, and social feeds is digital exhaustion – your mental battery draining while your devices keep demanding attention. In this lesson, you’ll explore digital exhaustion, how it relates to stress and burnout, and why your habits with screens matter more than any single app. You’ll find out exactly what drains your energy and discover eight simple rules to protect it, recharge sooner, and let your tools refresh you instead of wearing you down. Let’s di...

Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink Field Manual

- July 04, 2026

What's it about? Leadership Strategy and Tactics (2020) teaches you how to take the skills of a high-functioning Navy SEAL team and apply them to your workplace. You’ll learn about practices such as Extreme Ownership, and find out why humility is better than arrogance. These tips will help you to leave your ego at the door and to remember that your team’s success should always come before personal success. Being a team leader can be fraught with challenges. You’re often called upon to juggle multiple responsibilities, make tough decisions, and many must overcome their own insecurities. But fortunately, for most of us, being a team leader isn’t a matter of life or death – and that’s because we’re not leading Navy SEAL platoons on high-risk special ops missions. But this is precisely what author Jocko Willink did. In his experiences leading a Navy SEAL platoon, Willink used a full range of leadership skills. And he noticed that these skills could also be applied to other, less dan...

A Brief History of Thought by Luc Ferry A Philosophical Guide to Living

- July 01, 2026

What's it about? A Brief History of Thought (1996) chronicles the big moments in the history of Western philosophy in a lucid and accessible way – from the Stoicism of classical Greece right through to twentieth-century postmodernism. Not simply a description of abstract ideals, it shows how we can apply the wisdom of the world’s best thinkers to live happier and more meaningful lives. For anyone starting out with philosophy, it’s easy to get disheartened. Incomprehensible jargon, long-winded sentences and a jumble of abstract ideas often obscure precious insights into what it means to be human and how we should live our lives – like trying to admire a beautiful view through a dirty window. But these lessons offer you a sure and simple path through that morass, taking Western thought’s most complex and vital ideas and distilling them into language that everyone can understand. Starting with ancient Greek conceptions of the universe and finishing with the rise of contemporary hu...

In a Good Place by Leidy Klotz How the Spaces Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive

- July 01, 2026

What's it about? In a Good Place (2026) explores how the spaces around us quietly shape the people we become. Drawing on psychology, design, and everyday life, it reveals how homes, offices, streets, and public spaces can either nourish or frustrate our need for agency, connection, and a sense of belonging. Space matters more than we often think. Design details can have a huge impact on the course of our lives. If your kitchen drawers always stick and your countertop is too small, cooking never becomes more than a chore. Eventually, takeout wins. A few years later, your food bills are out of control and your jeans fit differently. It can go the other way too. A cool bedroom with blackout curtains can improve sleep for years, lowering stress and reducing the risk of heart disease and depression. The problem is that we rarely notice these effects while they’re happening. Modern life trains us to treat our surroundings as background scenery. We work in noisy offices while pretending...

Work Happier by Mark Price How to Be Happy and Successful at Work

- June 29, 2026

What's it about? Work Happier (2025) makes the case that workplace happiness is neither a luxury nor a matter of luck, but a right that every worker can measure, pursue, and claim. Built around six evidence-based drivers of employee happiness, it gives anyone from the shop floor to the boardroom the tools to take control of their own working life. Imagine this: Sunday evening arrives along with a growing sense of dread. You feel a low-key, creeping anxiety about going back to work on Monday. Not because anything catastrophic is waiting for you there, but because going to work just feels empty. Sound familiar? Well, that feeling has a name: the Sunday scaries. A 2018 LinkedIn survey found that about 80 percent of US workers have experienced them. Younger workers felt them the most: a whopping 94 percent of Gen Z and 91 percent of Millennials feel dread on Sundays about the coming work week. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Work at its best can be one of life’s most rewarding ex...