The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey: Summary and Key Lessons
Stephen Covey's 1989 book in plain words: the 7 habits in three stages, the tools that still hold up, and what critics fault in its evidence and its framing.
Book Summaries & Big Ideas
The key ideas from the best books on productivity, money, work and life, and whether they hold up.
Productivity and time
Getting Things Done by David Allen: What It Gets Right and Wrong
A Getting Things Done summary and critique: what 2011 experiments support in David Allen's method, what no trial has tested, and which parts look dated.
Money and investing
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel: Summary and Key Lessons
The Psychology of Money summary: Housel's 19 stories, then the evidence on experience, compounding and 'enough' across US, Finnish and German data.
Habits and behavior change
Atomic Habits by James Clear: Summary, Key Ideas, and Critique
An Atomic Habits summary that scores 9 of the book's ideas against habit research: which hold up, which are untested, and which the evidence contradicts.
Wellbeing, happiness, and meaning
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: What It Gets Right and Wrong
The Why We Sleep book, claim by claim: what a 2019 critique, Walker's own replies and later reviews show about short sleep, cancer, death and one chart.
Psychology, thinking, and decisions
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: Key Ideas and Whether They Hold Up
A Thinking, Fast and Slow summary checked against later replications: its research on choices holds up, while chapter 4's priming studies did not.
Focus and digital life
Deep Work by Cal Newport: Summary, Key Ideas, and Critique
A Deep Work summary and critique: Cal Newport's 4 rules, what field studies of protected work time support, and where the book's evidence runs thin.