Honestly thought a lot of this book was pretty boring, but maybe that's just because I read it to fall asleep.
It has a few non-obvious ideas on how you can organize your mental and physical worlds better.
BUT. It has a LOT of filler material. Examples are good, but (for example) I might benefit from knowing how the singer in a band organizes his time, but I really don't need a list of their members, recordings, former name....
The book is at least three times the length it should have been. The "Organizing our time" chapter has almost convinced me to prioritize the book right out.
It has lots of interesting material on psychology and social psychology, as would be expected from this author.
More of the same. 6 pages on the evolution of paper filing systems. Sort of interesting, but not why most people would buy this book. Some of the excruciating details were obviously wrong to me, which left me wondering "if he's wrong on topics I know …
It has a few non-obvious ideas on how you can organize your mental and physical worlds better.
BUT. It has a LOT of filler material. Examples are good, but (for example) I might benefit from knowing how the singer in a band organizes his time, but I really don't need a list of their members, recordings, former name....
The book is at least three times the length it should have been. The "Organizing our time" chapter has almost convinced me to prioritize the book right out.
It has lots of interesting material on psychology and social psychology, as would be expected from this author.
More of the same. 6 pages on the evolution of paper filing systems. Sort of interesting, but not why most people would buy this book. Some of the excruciating details were obviously wrong to me, which left me wondering "if he's wrong on topics I know about, how can I trust that he's right on topics I don't know about". The part on Information Theory is inaccurate and irrelevant.
It took a year and a half to finish this because I could only take so much at once.
If you can get it from a library, skim for a few tips that make sense to you, and use them, that's good. Not really worth reading thoroughly.
