{ignore this email if you can}... Books I'm Reading (or how I'm procrastinating work) - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 2:13 PM
[Below is the very first email I sent to Maiyah about my audiobook readings/listenings. From this day till the assignment was over in early September, I more or less emailed her every single day about the books I was listening to, cool excerpts, summaries, and book rip links. Coming back from Subway, I would talk to her everyday for 10 minutes at 1:50pm, explain to her what I read, she would ask questions, and then I would proceed to copy-paste and summarize the reading over the course of 30min-2hrs in a single email to respond to her questions and other comments. This email is the origin of this newsletter today.]
From: "Maiyah [redacted]"
Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:16 PM -0700
Subject: RE: {ignore this email if you can}... Books I'm Reading (or how I'm procrastinating work)
To: "Don Rutledge [Temp]"
Amazing! Thank you!!
-Maiyah
From: Don Rutledge [Temp]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 2:13 PM
To: Maiyah [redacted]
Subject: {ignore this email if you can}... Books I'm Reading (or how I'm procrastinating work)
Quick preface to what I told you earlier:
Why Does Explaining to Others Helps Us Understand?
Article link: https://www.livescience.com/34000-explaining-helps-understand.html
The books:
It’s highlighted [bolded] because it was the book I was explaining to you about procrastinating, Carmen Miranda*, and Warby Parker
Originals by Adam Grant
Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers/discussion
Book rip (click “GET”): [REDACTED LINK]
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
How to break habits video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eYrhGeffc
Book rip: [REDACTED LINK]
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In**
What it’s about basically (article): https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/six-guidelines-for-getting-to-yes/
Book Rip (2011 version): [REDACTED LINK]
**I gave up on this because the narrator is boring af; I’d rather read it
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
BrianPickings review of the book (great blog overall): https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/11/how-to-change-your-mind-michael-pollan/
Book rip: [REDACTED LINK]
*PS: The name is not “Carmen Miranda”, the 1930 Brazilian samba singer that wore a fruit hat, but rather it’s “Carmen Medina”…
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