books you truly regret reading

TL;DR: The author shares tactics for persuading people. Only problem is that most of the tactics, pending implementation, seem to lead to disingenuous untrustworthy behavior.

2026-02-20

TL;DR: It should be a 2 paragraph blog post. It's repetitive.

2026-02-23

TL;DR: your consultant friend's favourite book found in every airport bookstore. broad, sweeping generalizations, the 'world' is mostly the western world, and oveconfident tone throughout.

2026-03-05

TL;DR: the title is pretty good. Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less. there you go. you've gained 80% of the benefit of reading the book.

2026-02-19

TL;DR: you're never going to get everything done. stop trying to optimize so much. there will always be more to do. stop cramming tasks. focus on what's most important and just relax. you do not need a full book to learn this, imo.

2026-02-19

TL;DR: Everything I achieved is because I'm great. Everything you failed to achieve is because you didn't try hard enough. I do not understand survivorship bias.

2026-03-17

TL;DR: Summary: Turns out, militarized BS isnt always good at actual decision making and leadership, or writing a "classic" military history book. Critique: A sincere history of military failures of all kinds, all MUST ONLY be, because the men weren't good enough. Ignore politics, and all other factors, of course. The problem is that anyone can be a "revisionist" 100 years later and call it however they like, for example the author pegs the Boer War as sheer incompetence, when it was likely effective defeatism.

2026-03-16