Library

Every spine above is a real note — pull one off the shelf.

Books are like powerups for life.
Really.
You want to learn how to communicate with people in a mature way, save your relations with everyone? Non violent communication
Someone with real life experience on the subject (if it’s the right book but you can roughly shortcut knowing that by popularity) will write all they know on that subject. Years. Nailed down to hours of reading.
And then you can read Jules Verne and travel into another world of imagination, really live a story. Help you build your own personal myth, since, as described by A story is a deal, we live in those!
It’s not about being smart by yourself, we’re part of a huge collective.
Smart people read. They deepen their souls.
greatness formula has no shortcuts.

We think by replicating how others think. A book is thoughts from an expert on a certain matter, one that goes deep enough to evolve thinking.
Books are like powerups for life.
We can’t think in a vacuum, we can only think about something books give us content to think against. This is also linked to How AI should be used.

Of course, reading is only the first part, after you read, why you should write and observe.
But it should be effortless to do these things. These should be habits.atomic habits is a good book for this, Daily realization is a way to put it in practise.
Don’t rely on willpower to do anything, it’s limited. Change how your brain works to make it effortless.

What belongs in this room

One note per book, with what stuck and what it is worth. Fiction included — a story does a job an argument cannot. Reading List is what comes next.
A book does not have to sit in this folder to be on this shelf. Put [[Library]] in a note’s categories: alongside the room the subject belongs to, and it appears in both — Non violent communication stands with Relationships, atomic habits with private, Lean startup with Work. The shelf reads the category, never the directory, so a book can be filed where its idea is used and still be found here.
Not here: an article, a video or a podcast — those are clippings, and they live in Clippings.