When it comes time to choose your next book to read, sometimes you feel like you’re out in the middle of the sea without a life jacket. But what should I choose now? I wondered for several years in a row. And so, I was looking for all kinds of charts, I was swallowing all the marketing of the big publishers and bookstores that had the necessary funds to display their ads, but still, on this Earth, there are a lot of books written and certainly, not all of them bring just as much value. And since big data management is becoming a serious issue these days, I chose a principles-based solution. I mean, I asked myself: what really interests me? Thus, I consolidated a few lines of interest that I intentionally break from time to time for the sake of curiosity, but the directions remain quite clear at the moment.
As a result, for the books I went through in 2022, I’m going to ask one question at a time, and if you’re interested in finding out the answer to that question, you might want to read that book as well. Small disclaimer here: some books might not be available in English.
Nr. Crt. | Book title | Author | Question |
1 | Employer Branding 100% | Doru Șupeală | Do you want to know what employer branding means for the moment when you can no longer find people to hire? |
2 | Will | Will Smith, Mark Manson | Interested in hearing the story of a Hollywood actor? |
3 | How much is left of the night? | Adrien Candiard | Do you feel like you are trapped in a phase of your life and the Universe is resisting your escape? |
4 | Rethink | Adam Grant | Are you often told that you are rigid, that you seem to know it all, or that you have beliefs that you will go to the grave with? |
5 | Marketing rebellion | Mark Schaefer | Wondering what’s next for TikTok and AI in marketing? |
6 | The right story | Bernadette Jiwa | Do you want to improve your communication and persuasion skills? |
7 | Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail | Ray Dalio | Are you passionate about macroeconomics and curious about how great empires rise and fall? |
8 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | Missing a good series that intelligently reveals human nature? |
9 | The intelligence of the heart | Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban | What are hope, faithfulness, love, temperance, kindness, fear, modesty, and politeness? Can they be categorized as virtues? |
10 | Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Are you looking to shape your life philosophy according to a set of sustainable principles adapted to the environment in which we live? |
11 | The obstacle is the way | Ryan Holiday | Do you find yourself starting to complain a little too often? Want to learn how you can use this to your advantage? |
12 | Let’s talk about Putin! What the West does not understand | Mark Galeotti | Want to understand a little more about the causes of the war in Ukraine? |
13 | How will you measure your life? | Clayton M. Christensen | Even so, how will you measure your life? |
14 | A brief history of Russia | Mark Galeotti | Want to understand a little more about the causes of the war in Ukraine? |
15 | Enzo Ferrari – A life | Richard Williams | Interested in finding out how a passion taken to the extreme ends up writing history? |
16 | I don’t have any other time | Seneca | Do you find that you have ended up obsessively repeating the expression “I don’t have time” and you want to do something in this direction? |
17 | King Carol I of Romania | Paul Lindenberg | Would you like to know how the Romanian nation was formed? |
18 | Show me the money | Esteve Calzada | Do you want to know how any sporting activity can be capitalized, beyond titles and trophies? |
19 | Meaningful | Bernadette Jiwa | Do you feel like you get lost in small things quite often and you don’t like it? Do you want to do something in this direction? |
20 | The Future of Humanity | Michio Kaku | Curious about what’s next after ChatGPT? |
21 | On the Heart and Other Essays | Andrei Pleșu | Do you want to discover how Andrei Pleșu thinks? |
22 | The Inner Game of Tennis | W. Timothy Gallwey | Do you feel like you get demoralized quickly after setbacks and wish you had Nadal’s psyche? |
23 | Open mindedness | Institutul Arbinger | Would you be interested in learning how problems with a million dollar impact can be solved? |
24 | The wealth of nations | Adam Smith | Do you want to know what is the doctrine behind capitalism? |
25 | Stocks for the long run | Jeremy J. Siegel | Want to start understanding more about the stock market and other investment tools? |
26 | Exercised | Daniel E. Lieberman | Do you want to understand a little better how your body works? |
27 | 4000 weeks | Oliver Burkeman | Are you looking for reasons to start enjoying life as it is? |
28 | About the lack of being born | Emil Cioran | Do you want to discover how Emil Cioran thinks? |
I hope that at least one book here will be of use to you. 🙂
