# Anish's Library A working collection of book summaries and ideas I keep returning to. Notes to future-me, not book reports. The library is organised around four disciplines: **strategy** (creating value), **numbers** (measuring and interpreting), **action** (turning decisions into results), and **prediction** (learning and updating beliefs). A fifth category, **foundations**, covers inner discipline and perspective. --- ## [[Books]] Curated summaries of what I've read, weighted by what actually stuck. Each summary captures the 2-3 insights I keep coming back to, not comprehensive coverage. **Recently added:** - [[Competing Against Time]] - time as strategic weapon - [[Never Split the Difference]] - negotiation as discovery - [[The Unaccountability Machine]] - why organisations resist control --- ## [[Ideas]] Mental models that appear across multiple books. The more sources an idea has, the more likely it's genuinely useful rather than one author's framing. **Most connected ideas:** - [[Systems Thinking]] (7 sources) - see interconnections, not just events - [[Optionality]] (7 sources) - prefer choices that keep options open - [[Loss Aversion]] (7 sources) - losses hurt ~2x more than gains feel good - [[Process vs Outcome]] (6 sources) - judge decisions by thinking quality, not results --- This library connects to [Field Notes](https://www.anishpatel.co/blog/) - observations from practice that apply these ideas.