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Tiago Forte's book recommendations
Key facts
- Tiago Forte has recommended or discussed 10 books on podcasts, as of January 10, 2024.
- Tiago Forte has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of January 10, 2024.
- Those books came up in 3 episodes, as of January 10, 2024.
- The 3 books Tiago Forte has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Tiago Forte's own, as of January 10, 2024: Dune, Ender's Game and Getting Things Done.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Tiago Forte aired on January 10, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Tiago Forte appears on, in one place — not just one.
Tiago Forte’s most recommended books
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Team by David Allen, Edward Lamont
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Tiago Forte appears on podcasts centered around productivity, knowledge management, and digital workflows to discuss how people process information and structure their creative projects. Through his appearances on Modern Wisdom and How I Write, Forte has shared extensive reading preferences, particularly within the science fiction genre, alongside insights into writing and productivity methodologies. When asked for his top sci-fi recommendations, Forte highlighted Dan Simmons's Hyperion as his favorite of all time, alongside Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, Frank Herbert's Dune, and works by Isaac Asimov, noting a preference for biologically driven sci-fi and mainstream classics. In discussions about productivity and writing mechanics, he has touched upon David Allen's Getting Things Done and explored how Francis Ford Coppola meticulously deconstructed Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather for cinematic adaptation, as well as reflecting on the process behind his own book, Building a Second Brain.
Books recommended by Tiago Forte
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Building a Second Brain
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte is a comprehensive guide to modern personal knowledge management, offering systematic frameworks for capturing, organizing, and retrieving digital information to enhance productivity.
Discussed“Do you feel like the book cannibalized the course? Definitely did, definitely did. There's so many signs, so many anecdotes, comments, feedback.”
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Dune
Dune by Frank Herbert is a foundational science fiction masterpiece that chronicles a young Paul Atreides as he navigates political intrigue, ecological survival, and empire on the desert planet Arrakis.
Recommended“Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I didn't want to believe that the the best ones were the mainstream ones.”
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a classic science fiction novel about a gifted child recruited into a rigorous military training academy to prepare for an impending alien invasion.
Recommended“Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I didn't want to believe that the the best ones were the mainstream ones.”
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Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done by David Allen is a widely acclaimed productivity manual that outlines a comprehensive system for stress-free task management and organization.
Recommended“David Allen's getting things done his two-minute rule”
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Hyperion
Hyperion by Dan Simmons is a sweeping science fiction epic structured around a pilgrimage to the distant world of Hyperion and the Time Tombs, drawing strong literary parallels to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Recommended“So, some of the ones that come to mind, I think my favorite of all time is Hyperion. Hyperion. I think it's Dan Simmons. It's being made into a TV show right now.”
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Lilith's Brood
Lilith's Brood by Octavia E.
Recommended“Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler was a really a big favorite exploring more of the biological side of science fiction instead of technology so much.”
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a dystopian science fiction novel set in a near-future virtual reality world filled with nostalgic pop culture references from the 1980s.
Recommended“Enders Game, Ready Player 1 is a newer one. Obviously Dune, obviously the Azimov series. Like, I didn't I didn't want to believe that the the best ones were the mainstream ones.”
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a productivity and self-help guide that argues for the immense value of cultivating distraction-free concentration in a hyper-connected world, asserting that focused effort is the key to achieving extraordinary professional outcomes and personal fulfillment.
Discussed“yes I was reading deep work by Cal Newport recently I know it's overdue and these publishers sent me very kindly thank you”
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Team
Discussed“but I I read the actually the updated edition of GTD which which was in 2015 it came out”
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The Godfather
The Godfather by Mario Puzo is a classic crime novel that chronicles the fictional Corleone mafia family and explores themes of power, loyalty, and corruption.
Discussed“Typically, you think of the script as the authority, as the backbone of the movie, but for him, even more important than the script was this notebook where he got pages of the Godfather novel, cut them out, pasted them on his own notebook, and then essentially annotated, underlined, added what I would call progressive summarization to deconstruct that story”
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Books by Tiago Forte
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Write More Productively (How to Start) | Tiago Forte | How I Write Podcast | How I Write | 2024-01-10 | 3 |
| How To Deal With Information Overwhelm - Tiago Forte | Modern Wisdom | 2022-07-18 | 5 |
| The Definitive Guide To Digital Productivity - Tiago Forte - #074 | Modern Wisdom | 2019-05-23 | 3 |