What is a Commonplace Book:
Personal notebook for collecting and organizing information, ideas, quotes, and other interesting or insightful material. It serves as a repository for knowledge, a place to store things you want to remember and revisit later. Think of it as a scrapbook of your own personal wisdom and inspiration.
My inspiration to start a commonplace book came from that auther Ryan Holiday – How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
My current iteration and repository for my commplace book is Notion; I prefer the digital space to capture my notes; searchable and more easily accessable BUT my prefered book reading and note taking is still analog; physical books + underlining/writing in the margins.
Some favorate notes to spark curiousity
Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod: “I try to give him money but he laughs, shakes his head and says he is as rich as he’ll ever need to be.” Welder along his walking path who make iron frogs as his past time.
Heat by Bill Buford: “The happy exhaustion of feeding lots of people.” Speaks to my upbringing in the resturant business and my personal joy in cooking for my family and friends
Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday: “Generosity is the seed of a great coaching tree”
ReEntry by Eric Berger: “The Falcon 9 is the most reliable, advanced, and cost effective rocket in the world. And yet Musk is pushing his engineering teams every day to obsolete it as rapidly as possible with Starship. An established company does not do that. But a disruptive, innovative one does.”
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel: Most successful people are just a walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity – Andrew Wilkinson
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by William McRaven: “A shepherd should smell like his sheep” – Pope Francis
What Your’re Made for by George Raveling: “Plant a lot of flowers on the way up, because you are going to have to pick them on the way down”