Should you read Subtract by Leidy Klotz?

Next month we're going to read Utopia for Realists. Join the book club to get all the discussion. In many ways I feel like most of the books I've read this year have been poor choices. None of them have had profound impacts on my thinking. They haven't changed my productivity practice, or changed my mind on any topics. Subtract isn't any different, but maybe I know why now. Near the end of Subtract, Leidy Klotz cites Cal Newport and his books like Digital Minimalism or Deep Work as originating works that told us to subtract from our workload to get better work done. Since I've read both of those, and found Deep Work in particular life changing, and also read many other books of similar ilk maybe I'm just done learning about the topic of subtraction as a method towards better outcomes. I felt similar when I read Essentialism. So many people cited it as a formidable book in the genre that changed how they thought about their work. It was cited in many other books I read, but by the time…