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01Tonight

What do you want to read tonight?

Four short summaries to choose from. Tap one, read it, tap Read, and your streak grows.

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Recommended tonight

Indistractable

Nir Eyal, 2019 · about 6 min

Distraction starts with how you feel a minute before you pick up the phone.

Practical: three layers you can change this week, from the moment itself to your calendar.
Also tonight

Drive

Daniel Pink, 2009 · about 6 min

Why bigger rewards sometimes produce worse work, and what motivates thinking work instead.

Useful for managing a team: autonomy, mastery and purpose, with the candle-problem experiment.
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Grit

Angela Duckworth, 2016 · about 8 min

Why passion and perseverance can matter more than talent, and when to stop.

Includes a hard-thing experiment with an end date, and an honest look at where the research is weaker.
Also tonight

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman, 2021 · about 6 min

You will never get everything done, and accepting that is the way out of feeling behind.

About choosing what to leave undone, which fits running several businesses at once.