zuloma. bookshelf ← book notes

illustrated · interactive · built to be remembered

Read once. Keep it forever.

Great books, distilled into illustrated summaries you can act on — diagrams for the frameworks, checklists to apply them, and recall cards so they stick.

01 — ABSORBthe core framework as a drawn diagram, seven ideas with visual metaphors
02 — APPLYa five-step checklist for this week, saved on your device
03 — RETAINflip cards and a self-quiz — recall beats rereading

on the shelf — 6 volumes

habits · self-improvement

Atomic Habits

James Clear · 2018

Tiny 1% improvements, run through the cue–craving–response–reward loop, compound into remarkable results.

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wealth · judgment · happiness

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson · 2020

Specific knowledge, accountability and leverage — Naval's pyramid for wealth without renting out your time.

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mental models · judgment

Seeking Wisdom

Peter Bevelin · 2003

Why evolution, psychology and unseen base rates make us misjudge — and Munger's latticework that corrects it.

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operations · theory of constraints

The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1984

A factory novel — find the constraint, exploit it, and subordinate everything else to it before spending a dollar.

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mental models · judgment

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charles T. Munger · 2005

A latticework of mental models across disciplines — inversion, the circle of competence, and incentive-caused bias.

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systems thinking · judgment

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows · 2008

Stocks, flows, and feedback loops — and the twelve leverage points, from the weakest to the most powerful.

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