5 Books I'm Currently Reading

2025-08-13 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:15 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books and reading · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

In a Short, Ali lists the five books he is reading this month — Pat Flynn's Lean Learning, Pierce Brown's Dark Age (Red Rising book four), Campbell Walker's Doom and Bloom, Nick Huber's The Sweaty Startup and Suzanne Collins's Sunrise on the Reaping — and recommends all five.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Five books Ali is reading this month and a line on each

• ★★ This month (August 2025) Ali is reading five books: Lean Learning, Dark Age, Doom and Bloom, The Sweaty Startup and, on Audible, Sunrise on the Reaping. — 00:00:00 · Audible
• ★★ Ali describes Pat Flynn's Lean Learning: How to Achieve More by Learning Less as a nonfiction book written for over-analysing people like him, who tend to take action less than they should. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali absolutely loved books one, two and three of Pierce Brown's Red Rising series, read over a couple of weeks, and has started book four, Dark Age. — 00:00:00
• ★★ Ali calls Doom and Bloom, Campbell Walker's illustrated book about creativity, subtitled The Case for Creativity in a World Hooked on Panic, a very fun, very nice book to read. — 00:00:29
• ★★ Ali has nearly finished Nick Huber's The Sweaty Startup, whose case is that you should start a boring business rather than a sexy, glamorous-sounding one, and says it gives a lot of very useful advice on that. — 00:00:29 · business on easy mode
• ★★ Ali, who loved The Hunger Games as a kid, likes Suzanne Collins's prequels: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was great, and Sunrise on the Reaping, which he is listening to on Audible, is very good so far. — 00:00:58 · Audible
• ★ Ali recommends all five books he is reading this month (August 2025). — 00:00:58

Threads in this video

• progress update · Ali promises to keep recommending fantasy audiobooks on the channel (2020) — Ali, who loved The Hunger Games as a kid, likes Suzanne Collins's prequels: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was great, and Sunrise on the Reaping, which he is listening to on Audible, is very good so far. (00:00:58)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Ali promises to keep recommending fantasy audiobooks on the channel (2020) — open (updates through 2025, not reported done); last: progress update, 2025-08-13

Mentioned

People: Campbell Walker · Nick Huber · Pat Flynn · Pierce Brown · Suzanne Collins

Works: Dark Age · Doom and Bloom · Lean Learning · Red Rising · Sunrise on the Reaping · The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes · The Hunger Games · The Sweaty Startup

Concepts: business on easy mode

Products: Audible

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