Which book reminds you of summer? For me, it’s the one below, and I’ll tell you why. It was the summer of 1991. My uncle, who was on vacation, had left me the keys to his house, so I went there to study and acted as a caretaker. I brought along books on algebra and geometry (matrices, vector spaces, monads, etc.) and the RKM (Amiga Rom Kernel Manual)in the photo. Until 6 PM, I studied algebra, and then I read the RKM. I followed my grandmother’s advice: duty first, then pleasure (sorry, Professor Konderac, but the RKM gave me more pleasure).
Over the years, I’ve realized I often buy books by so-called gurus on how to organize life and be productive. On LinkedIn and Twitter, posts by these super personalities appear, but if I think about it, it’s all already been written or said. The monks’ “ora et labora” is today’s “start the day with meditation”; “eat the frog first” is my grandmother’s way of saying “duty first.” Regarding persistence, we can remember some of Jesus Christ’s words, but surely there is something similar in other religions or philosophies. Why do we need to hear or read the same things in a different form? Have we lost our memories? Maybe these hot nights are getting to me.
