# 222: The 2025 Productivity Field Guide

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- Full Title: 222: The 2025 Productivity Field Guide
- Category: #podcasts
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/e66b66e7-537c-4e75-8fa7-00bc1abe3570
## Highlights
- **Reading Recommendation**
- Mike Schmitz is reading "Poor Charlie's Almanac" by Charlie Munger.
- He recommends the free, beautifully designed online version.
Transcript:
Mike Schmitz
I am reading a book for Bookworm, naturally, but I wanted to make sure that I mentioned it here because it's fascinating. It's Poor Charlie's Almanac. And the story of this is it's a book by Charlie Munger. So it's talking about his life. It's got reflections from his kids. It's got talks that he gave. But the real interesting thing about this is that it's published by Stripe Press. And there is a free online version of this book that is just absolutely beautiful. It's an incredibly well-designed web page. So I will put the link to this in the show notes for people who want to take a look at this. But the website has a bunch of additional photos and things from the life of Charlie Munger, which I guess people aren't familiar with him. He's the right-hand man to Warren Buffett with, I forget the name of their company, Berkshire Hathaway. Does that sound right? Yeah, that's it. Yeah. So very successful investment firm. And it's a lot of interesting tidbits from his life and just kind of the lessons that he's learned along the way. I mean, you always get the blurbs of the books and they're always a little bit fantastic or extreme, but there was a, there was one from somebody who said that this is a million dollar education In a book. And I don't think that's necessarily wrong because it's edited versions of a lot of his real popular talks that he gave at business schools and commencements and things like that. So I am really enjoying this book so far. And everyone should go check out the free online version. I will check ([Time 0:51:38](https://share.snipd.com/snip/f3f793d1-24f4-4cc4-8a24-d4c964527c90))