Fresh Off the Shelf - Vol. 2

Reconciling the Past, Regaining Our Principles, and Making Sense of What's Left When All Has Been Broken

One of the downsides of our information landscape is that you can find yourself overwhelmed by the vast amount of knowledge at your disposal and completely depleted when trying to recall any of it.

I realized this in large part when I began my first year of book research. During that year, I read the most books, articles, and essays that I've ever read at any point in my life. Thanks to Google and online storefronts, like Amazon, I can have any book or piece of information in recorded history at my fingertips in seconds (or in 4-5 business days). 

But anytime, I try to remember what I read, I'd find myself at pause. I couldn't remember off the top of my head what I had read recently. I began to realize that much of what I was consuming on a regular basis wasn't sticking with me as much as I thought it was. I'd then have to comb through my library database in Notion or my book logs just to recall what I read in the last month.

This month's entry—and in a way every entry in this series—is devoted to the books that have stuck. Books that have left an indelible impact on me and whose lessons I hold onto in my everyday life.