Books I’ve read (listen I’d say) this week
I’m an old-fashioned person that prefers that physical book to digitalized versions such as PDF or Kindle. I don’t own a physical Kindle myself, so I can not judge that experience of reading on such a device, I have the applications running on my iPhone and in my Mac.
However, I’m a big fan of reading and feeling the physical book. You might argue that traveling with such books is complicated to what I would reply that you are absolutely right. During my last trip to the US, I had to decide what items to leave behind in favor of the ten books I bought, as space was limited.
Since last week, I have decided to give Audible a try. There are some books that I wanted to read from beginning to end, but I didn’t feel it was the time to read them. Not because I was procrastinating and rolling the ball for later, it is just that I was not prepared to actually get that knowledge or I was not sure on how to apply it to my current job or to my current endeavors.
The first one is The Lean Startup from Eric Ries. This book is foundational if you have worked, are working, or want to start your own business. Even when I have been working in startup environments, I feel like I could not apply the principles of this book. In part for the short vision of the management and in part because I focused 200% on the technical aspects of the underlying technology.
The second one is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck — by Mark Manso-which ended one of my favorite books, I have listened to it twice this week.
The third one is Hooked How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover.
During the last weeks, I have been waking up extremely early at 3:00 am every single day from Monday to Friday; having larger days allows me to focus on other areas of improvement such as writing, reading, learning, certifications, etc.
With audible, I have managed to listen to three books in the last two weeks, listening to some of them twice.
The only problem I have with the Audible format is that when you are hearing as opposed to listening. That’s why I chose the solitary early mornings just when my senses are more alert (even more after taking a cold shower at 3:00 am).
Then my mind starts to trick me, bringing a set of useless thoughts that interrupt the listening. When that happens, I just stop the audiobook or start over the chapter.
I believe Audible is a great hack for saving time and get more valuable content even while traveling or multi-tasking ( to be honest, multi-tasking and listening audiobooks does not work for me and I endedup re-listening the chapters that I missed). It really depends on the book as I believe there are some of them that you need to have them in your bookshelf.
