I might suggest a category along the lines of “self-optimization” / “lifestyle design” / “things that suggest options you might not have considered otherwise existed”—specifically, to share “Early Retirement Extreme”, Jacob Lund Fisker—and because I am the sort of peculiar person who enjoys reading about how to fold my shirts the best (“Spark Joy”, Marie Kondo).
I guess I’d like to distinguish books that feel more like rationalist-style habit-design from (the hypothetical, prototypical) “self-help” “Do More With The Power of Doing More: A Guide to More Doing”.
When someone recommends a non-fiction book to me I usually search the author's name in Google Podcasts. I can usually find an episode of them talking about the book's subject.
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I might suggest a category along the lines of “self-optimization” / “lifestyle design” / “things that suggest options you might not have considered otherwise existed”—specifically, to share “Early Retirement Extreme”, Jacob Lund Fisker—and because I am the sort of peculiar person who enjoys reading about how to fold my shirts the best (“Spark Joy”, Marie Kondo).
I guess I’d like to distinguish books that feel more like rationalist-style habit-design from (the hypothetical, prototypical) “self-help” “Do More With The Power of Doing More: A Guide to More Doing”.
When someone recommends a non-fiction book to me I usually search the author's name in Google Podcasts. I can usually find an episode of them talking about the book's subject.