30 Books for 2017 and 4 Lessons on E-Books – ElPropósito2 min de lectura

This year I’ve decided to set e-books aside and go back to my roots: reading printed books. I’ve also set myself a challenging goal for it: read 30 books by December 2017… and I’ve already added 8 more to the list :S

About 6 years ago I started an experiment, alternating between printed books and e-books. My conclusions in December 2016 were:

1. By the end of the year, I always end up reading less
2. Too many distractions on the device (alerts, news, apps and so on)
3. I don’t feel the same connection with e-books
4. Having printed books (and reading them, of course) is one of my greatest treasures and joys in life

These 4 big takeaways finally made me give up the Kindle and the iPad. It feels like the right decision and the perfect moment to keep growing my beloved library.

For 2017, these are the books that already have a place in my reading hours:

1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
2. Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
3. Living Forward
4. Tools of Titans
5. Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich
6. The 4-Hour Body
7. Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
8. Airplane Flying Handbook
9. Flight Navigator Handbook
10. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
11. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
12. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
13. Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success
14. The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
15. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
16. Ulysses
17. Fall of Giants
18. La Nicaragua de los Somoza
19. The Master Algorithm
20. World Without End
21. I’m OK, You’re OK
22. Estirpe sangrienta
23. The Industries of the Future
24. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
25. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
26. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
27. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
28. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
29. The Gene: An Intimate History
30. The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
31. Start with Why
32. Together Is Better
33. The 5 Love Languages
34. The Dip
35. On the Shortness of Life
36. The Magic of Thinking Big
37. How Will You Measure Your Life?
38. The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing

Regards,

Rodrigo Baccaro

Author: Rodrigo Baccaro

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