Niklas Heer

I found this book to contain a great attitude towards money and investments. It's rooted in the question of what financial decision lets you sleep well at night? 

I recommend this book to everyone wanting to invest or find their strategy for money. 

This book has some good ideas, but it is only beneficial if you are in a specific situation. Thus, I didn't get a lot out of the book. 

This book is for CEOs and COOs or innovators and integrators at the top of a company. 

This book explores how companies can function without a dominator hierarchy. It highlights several companies which are already on that journey and leads through what they learned along the way. 

I can recommend this book to everyone interested in exploring alternative ways of working. 

The Bhagavad Gita is an exciting book. What surprised me was how close some of the ideas are to modern science. For me, things became a little confusing towards the end. Since it was the first time I had contact with the story, I had trouble keeping all the names in my head. I wished that this was explained better in the book. 

Overall I enjoyed the wisdom it provided and can recommend reading it. Maybe it's easier to follow the second time around. 

This book contains some worthwhile ideas about mutual aid groups based on collaboration rather than hierarchy or fancy degrees. 

But for me, it felt like homework going through the book—long lists and comparisons and a topic that is not immediately relevant to me. 

Still, I feel if this is a subject you're interested in, then this book is probably great, although it also contains a lot of common sense wisdom. 

I can recommend this book only to people invested in the topic of working or starting a Mutual aid group or who are already working for a non-profit, NGO, or community. 

This book tries to explain the thought process of Eliyahu M. Goldratt through an exciting dialog with his daughter. 

The lessons are presented through reports he shares with his daughter from companies he worked with. 

I very much enjoyed this format. It made it easy to read and enjoyable. 

Although I still cannot claim I fully internalize the thought process highlighted in the book, I recognize that it is beneficial. 

I can recommend this book to everyone. 

This book covers a lot of different topics, and the author goes way beyond the central question of the book, “where is my flying car?”.

At times it was therefore harder for me to get through the book. I'm afraid I also have to disagree with the author on some topics like nuclear energy. Sure it's an exciting power source but what to do with the waste? He doesn't really answer that. 

Overall I can recommend this book to people interested in science and science fiction. 

This book was very captivating and insightful for me. Although it is quite old, I think it is still relevant. 

I first read “The Phoenix Project” and “The Unicorn Project” but after reading “The Goal” it is so obvious that those are just two books retelling this story for the area of IT and software development. 

But the fundamental concepts still hold true after all this time. 

I can recommend this book to everyone interested in the topic of flow or the theory of constraints. 

The author hits on a very fundamental truth in this book, but for me, it quickly became repetitive. There are good stories in the book and even concrete things to do, but for me, it could have been shorter and thus packed a bigger punch. 

I would recommend to the interested reader to read a summary of the book instead. 

The book's findings are pretty surprising, at least for me, but they are well thought out and make sense. The way the research is woven together with stories has made the book more enjoyable to me. 

The only thing which I could think of to improve is to have a glance at the companies now 20 years later if everything still holds up. 

I can recommend this book to everyone interested in great companies. 

The main idea is that instead of relying on willpower, you should build the right environment to succeed. 

While that is helpful, I would have preferred more concrete tips on achieving that rather than so many different stories. 

The book could be more to the point and less cluttered. 

I recommend reading a summary of the book rather than the book itself. 

This book is about how the Fresh Prince found Will. It is a story about success, failure, and the inner self. I found wisdom in the lessons this book offers. 

It is written in a captivating way and told beautifully by Will Smith in the audio version. I urge you to listen to the audio version since it contains music and great acting from Will Smith. 


I can recommend this book to everyone to whom any of this sounds interesting. 

This book was more a memoir than a generalized book on religionless living. I found the story of the author to be exciting and thought-provoking. In essence, the author talks about how they scraped away the institutions of religion to find the core philosophy within. 

I can recommend this book to everyone who finds this description attractive. 

This is a concise book. I enjoyed the stories in it from ancient times and got a glimpse at the warrior ethos. 

I can recommend the book to people to whom this sounds interesting. 

This book is a good summary of things you can do to be more productive.  Most topics in this book weren't new, but I like how concise this book is. 

I can recommend this book to everyone seeking more energy or wanting to be more productive. 

This book tells the incredible story of the BioNTech vaccine. I found it inspiring and very informative. The story is told in a very captivating way. It also covers more details about the vaccine and how it works. 

Overall this is a fine book. I can recommend it to everyone interested in this story or who wants to understand mRNA vaccines better. 

Although the book was first released in 1967, the ideas in this book still hold up today.
I found the clarity of the ideas and the principles very helpful.
I can recommend this book to everyone in a Leadership position or people interested in the topic.

This book talks about people in Japan living unusually long lives and what science knows about why they get so much older.
One significant factor seems to be „ikigai“ (a reason for being).
I found the concepts and thoughts in the book beneficial, so I can recommend this book to everyone for whom this sounds interesting.

This book is about the philosophy of pragmatism and how you can think straight and have a meaningful positive impact in your life.
The author also references other ideas from the stoics, for example.
The information density was not that high - for me, but it is a concise summary.
I can recommend this book to people who want to read their first philosophy book.

This book links productivity and meditation together. The author explains the various benefits of mediation, but the audiobook also includes short 2-minute mediation sessions to get a feel for it.
For me, it helps me get back into my mediation habit.
I can recommend this book to every knowledge worker or person interested in meditation.

This book condenses experience from different fields and provides specific wisdom in the software engineering realm.
The author does that by providing insights from multiple people in the industry and mixing in his own experience.
I recommend this book to every software engineer who wants to have a lot of experience condensed into one book.

This book is short and to the point. I like the author's distinction between outputs, outcomes, and impacts. It makes sense to focus on behavior change outcomes rather than just output like feature x and feature y. The impact is the business impact the outcomes have. (e.g., more sales)
It's such a simple model but very powerful.
I can recommend this book to everyone interested in leadership or product management.

This book is an excellent summary of the essential aspects of stoicism.
Maybe a little bit dry in some parts, but perhaps that's because I already knew the information in it.
I believe it would be a good book for people interested in stoicism and are at the beginning of their journey because it provides a good and concise overview of the topic.

This book showed me some strategies to handle people who are drifting into conspiracies and when it might not be possible anymore to argue with them.
I think especially in times like this when the society seems to become more defined books like this can help to people to see the true facts.

This book provides a look into the early years of Xi Jinping as well as his career. It also sheds light on how China approaches problems and how it sees the rest of the world. It's written in a very captivating style so reading it went by fast. Another fact which made me want to read this book is that China tried to censor it. (YouTube source)
I can recommend this book to everyone who wants to understand China and Xi Jinping better.