Brajesh Sen

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A loose record of what I'm reading, what's waiting on the shelf, and what I've finished.

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The Art of Spending Money cover The Art of Spending MoneyMorgan Housel

The Art of Spending Money

Morgan Housel · Finance
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From the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money — simple choices for a richer, more fulfilling existence.

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“Nothing is more important than an unread library.” — John Waters

1000+ Little Habits of Happy, Successful Relationships cover1000+ Little Habits of Happy, Successful RelationshipsMarc & Angel Chernoff
1000+ Little Habits of Happy, Successful Relationships
Marc & Angel Chernoff
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think cover101 Essays That Will Change the Way You ThinkBrianna Wiest
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest
11 Rules for Life: Secrets to Level Up cover11 Rules for Life: Secrets to Level UpChetan Bhagat
11 Rules for Life: Secrets to Level Up
Chetan Bhagat
1929 cover1929Andrew Ross Sorkin
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
40 Days of Dating: An Experiment cover40 Days of Dating: An ExperimentTimothy Goodman & Jessica Walsh
40 Days of Dating: An Experiment
Timothy Goodman & Jessica Walsh
A Big Book of Small Ideas: 50 Creations by Nendo coverA Big Book of Small Ideas: 50 Creations by NendoOki Sato with Geneviève Gallot
A Big Book of Small Ideas: 50 Creations by Nendo
Oki Sato with Geneviève Gallot
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes coverA Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black HolesStephen Hawking
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Stephen Hawking
A Guardian and a Thief coverA Guardian and a ThiefMegha Majumdar
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
Am I Overthinking This? Over-answering Life's Questions in 101 Charts coverAm I Overthinking This? Over-answering Life's Questions in 101 ChartsMichelle Rial
Am I Overthinking This? Over-answering Life's Questions in 101 Charts
Michelle Rial
Atmosphere coverAtmosphereTaylor Jenkins Reid
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making coverBuild: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth MakingTony Fadell
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell
Carbon coverCarbonPaul Hawken
Carbon
Paul Hawken
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results coverClear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary ResultsShane Parrish
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
Shane Parrish
Copywriting Is...: 30-or-so thoughts on thinking like a copywriter coverCopywriting Is...: 30-or-so thoughts on thinking like a copywriterAndrew Boulton
Copywriting Is...: 30-or-so thoughts on thinking like a copywriter
Andrew Boulton
Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires coverCreating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and InspiresDavid Aaker
Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires
David Aaker
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways coverCreative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional WaysSarah Stein Greenberg
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
Sarah Stein Greenberg
Dance First. Think Later.: 618 Rules to Live By coverDance First. Think Later.: 618 Rules to Live ByKathryn & Ross Petras
Dance First. Think Later.: 618 Rules to Live By
Kathryn & Ross Petras
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World coverDigital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy WorldCal Newport
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport
Finance for Non Finance: Empower Enlighten and Excel coverFinance for Non Finance: Empower Enlighten and ExcelVishal Thakkar
Finance for Non Finance: Empower Enlighten and Excel
Vishal Thakkar
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days coverFounders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early DaysJessica Livingston
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals coverFour Thousand Weeks: Time Management for MortalsOliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Great at Work: The Hidden Habits of Top Performers coverGreat at Work: The Hidden Habits of Top PerformersMorten T. Hansen, PhD
Great at Work: The Hidden Habits of Top Performers
Morten T. Hansen, PhD
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking coverHow to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and ThinkingSönke Ahrens
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Sönke Ahrens
Inward coverInwardYung Pueblo
Inward
Yung Pueblo
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences coverIt Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer SentencesJune Casagrande
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
June Casagrande
Microcopy: The Complete Guide coverMicrocopy: The Complete GuideKinneret Yifrah
Microcopy: The Complete Guide
Kinneret Yifrah
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life coverOther Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent LifePeter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Power vs. Force coverPower vs. ForceDavid R. Hawkins
Power vs. Force
David R. Hawkins
REWIRE: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life coverREWIRE: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday LifeNicole Vignola
REWIRE: Your Neurotoolkit for Everyday Life
Nicole Vignola
Several Short Sentences About Writing coverSeveral Short Sentences About WritingVerlyn Klinkenborg
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Surrounded by Idiots coverSurrounded by IdiotsThomas Erikson
Surrounded by Idiots
Thomas Erikson
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook coverThe Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of FacebookBen Mezrich
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook
Ben Mezrich
The Choice Factory: 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy coverThe Choice Factory: 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buyRichard Shotton
The Choice Factory: 25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy
Richard Shotton
The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day coverThe Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every DayMikael Krogerus & Roman Tschappeler
The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day
Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschappeler
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy coverThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Let Them Theory coverThe Let Them TheoryMel Robbins
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins
The Narrative Brain coverThe Narrative BrainFritz Breithaupt
The Narrative Brain
Fritz Breithaupt
The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life coverThe Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and LifePaul Millerd
The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Paul Millerd
The Persuasive Patterns Workshop Playbook coverThe Persuasive Patterns Workshop PlaybookAnders Toxboe
The Persuasive Patterns Workshop Playbook
Anders Toxboe
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained coverThe Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply ExplainedDK
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DK
The Xiaomi Way: Customer Engagement Strategies that Built One of the Largest Smartphone Companies coverThe Xiaomi Way: Customer Engagement Strategies that Built One of the Largest Smartphone CompaniesLi Wanqiang
The Xiaomi Way: Customer Engagement Strategies that Built One of the Largest Smartphone Companies
Li Wanqiang
Therapy Toolkit: 60 Cards for Self-Exploration coverTherapy Toolkit: 60 Cards for Self-ExplorationLinn Martinsen
Therapy Toolkit: 60 Cards for Self-Exploration
Linn Martinsen
Think Again coverThink AgainAdam Grant
Think Again
Adam Grant
tiny experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World covertiny experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed WorldAnne-Laure Le Cunff
tiny experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell coverTrillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill CampbellEric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
UNSEEN: The Untold Story of Deepinder Goyal and the Making of Zomato coverUNSEEN: The Untold Story of Deepinder Goyal and the Making of ZomatoMegha Vishwanath
UNSEEN: The Untold Story of Deepinder Goyal and the Making of Zomato
Megha Vishwanath
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions coverWhat If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical QuestionsRandall Munroe
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective coverWhy Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the ObjectiveKenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman
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50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know cover50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to KnowJoanne Baker
50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Joanne Baker
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry coverAstrophysics for People in a HurryNeil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Atomic Habits coverAtomic HabitsJames Clear
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Do the Work coverDo the WorkSteven Pressfield
Do the Work
Steven Pressfield
Eat That Frog! coverEat That Frog!Brian Tracy
Eat That Frog!
Brian Tracy
Gung Ho! coverGung Ho!Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
Gung Ho!
Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles
How to Win Friends and Influence People coverHow to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Ideas Are Your Only Currency coverIdeas Are Your Only CurrencyRod Judkins
Ideas Are Your Only Currency
Rod Judkins
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life coverIkigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy LifeHéctor García & Francesc Miralles
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy coverInner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to JoySadhguru
Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Sadhguru
Let's Build a Company coverLet's Build a CompanyHarpreet S. Grover & Vibhore Goyal
Let's Build a Company
Harpreet S. Grover & Vibhore Goyal
Let's Talk Money coverLet's Talk MoneyMonika Halan
Let's Talk Money
Monika Halan
Mahabharata Unravelled-I coverMahabharata Unravelled-IAmi Ganatra
Mahabharata Unravelled-I
Ami Ganatra
Marvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics That Built a Universe coverMarvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics That Built a UniverseJoe Quesada
Marvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics That Built a Universe
Joe Quesada
Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential coverMindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your PotentialDr Carol S. Dweck
Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
Dr Carol S. Dweck
Steal Like an Artist coverSteal Like an ArtistAustin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
The Alchemist coverThe AlchemistPaulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant coverThe Almanack of Naval RavikantEric Jorgenson
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
The Art of War coverThe Art of WarSun Tzu
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Checklist Manifesto coverThe Checklist ManifestoAtul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
The Courage to Be Disliked coverThe Courage to Be DislikedIchiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
The Design of Everyday Things coverThe Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The Magic coverThe MagicRhonda Byrne
The Magic
Rhonda Byrne
The Making of a Manager coverThe Making of a ManagerJulie Zhuo
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
The Midnight Library coverThe Midnight LibraryMatt Haig
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
The Palace of Illusions coverThe Palace of IllusionsChitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Power of Now coverThe Power of NowEckhart Tolle
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind coverThe Power of Your Subconscious MindDr. Joseph Murphy
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Dr. Joseph Murphy
The Quotable Tycoon coverThe Quotable TycoonDavid Olive
The Quotable Tycoon
David Olive
The Science of Getting Rich coverThe Science of Getting RichWallace D. Wattles
The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles
The Secret Millionaire Blueprint coverThe Secret Millionaire BlueprintArfeen Khan
The Secret Millionaire Blueprint
Arfeen Khan
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck coverThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words coverThing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple WordsRandall Munroe
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe
Tuesdays with Morrie coverTuesdays with MorrieMitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Unposted Letter coverUnposted LetterMahatria Ra
Unposted Letter
Mahatria Ra
Writing Without Bullshit coverWriting Without BullshitJosh Bernoff
Writing Without Bullshit
Josh Bernoff
book notes
2 articles
notes to self · 2025 · 3 min

Lessons from Gung Ho!

Three principles from Ken Blanchard — Spirit of the Squirrel, Way of the Beaver, Gift of the Goose — and how I'm applying them at work.

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Lessons from The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande on why even brilliant people miss obvious steps. The two kinds of checklists, and where I've put them to use.

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85 books tracked. Reading remains my favourite kind of slow.