Actionable Book Summaries

Throughout our travels, we’ve enjoyed reading plenty of books. Some books consist of such valuable information, it doesn’t make sense to keep them trapped in the pages of its namesake. For these books, I like to write Actionable Summaries.

What's an Actionable Book Summary?

An Actionable Summary is a book summary distilled to its most useful and practical parts. It's a summary created for the reader to absorb the book’s teachings and apply them across their personal and work life. You may ask what’s the purpose of an actionable book summary? They exist for people who want to learn about a subject, or at least learn about a book, but don’t have the time required to read the whole manuscript. Some books are lengthy and others simply aren’t worth reading for the small nuggets of gold buried within them. In my summaries, the most essential learnings are taken from the text and distilled into its most empirical and pragmatic.

My first actionable book summary is coming soon:

A World Without Email by Cal Newport

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