Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools

Spicy take: read the narrative non-fiction business books. They are written for entertainment and sit in the business section but you can learn things.

barbarians at the gate

when genius failed

bad blood

billion dollar whale

chaos monkey

liars poker

shoe dog

american kingping

broken code

soul of a new machine

and so on. There is nothing wrong with entertainment and since these are usually written by journalists or professional writers, the writing is often better.

This is a personal thing and probably not good, but I just hate narratives. Like stories are so contingent and our interpretation of our lives so irrational that I have almost no interest in the peculiar sequence of events that constitute people's lives. I especially dislike them when someone has curated them into a book, because that process is also often disingenuous, self-laudatory, irrational, or pulled around by other incentives.

I love people, I just don't care that much about how they think they got where they are.

There is a spicy quote which I resonate with. Something to the effect of tiny minds think about people, bigger minds think about events and galaxy brains think about ideas. When I read, I just really want to get to the ideas. I could not give two shits about people and I barely care about the events.