Noah Kanyo is the founder of mindima. He builds the app and writes about evidence-aware mental performance: focus, memory, speed reading, and the daily habits that make practice stick. mindima is his attempt to turn what the research actually supports into short, honest daily sessions, without the miracle claims.
The same standard runs through the articles and the science page.
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The shelf behind mindima
mindima is built on other people’s work. These are 114 of the books that shaped it. Influences, not citations; the sourced evidence is on the science page.
Habits & behavior change
- Atomic Habits
- The Power of Habit
- Tiny Habits
- Hooked
- Indistractable
- The Willpower Instinct
- Willpower
- Nudge
- Switch
- Better Than Before
- Habit Stacking
- The Compound Effect
Focus & attention
- Deep Work
- Digital Minimalism
- Hyperfocus
- Stolen Focus
- Focus
- The Distracted Mind
- Rapt
- The Shallows
- Attention Span
Learning & memory
- Make It Stick
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- Peak
- Ultralearning
- Limitless
- A Mind for Numbers
- How We Learn
- Why We Sleep
- The Talent Code
- Learn Better
- Unlimited Memory
- The Art of Memory
Motivation & drive
- Drive
- Grit
- Mindset
- Why We Do What We Do
- Punished by Rewards
- The Motivation Myth
- Flow
How the mind works
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Predictably Irrational
- The Organized Mind
- Incognito
- The Brain That Changes Itself
- How Emotions Are Made
- Behave
- The Undoing Project
- Superforecasting
- The Marshmallow Test
- Phantoms in the Brain
- Descartes' Error
- Range
Games & gamification
- Reality Is Broken
- SuperBetter
- Actionable Gamification
- For the Win
- The Art of Game Design
- Rules of Play
- A Theory of Fun for Game Design
- Gamification by Design
- Game Feel
- The Gamification of Learning and Instruction
- Glued to Games
- Homo Ludens
- The Grasshopper
Deep work & productivity
- Getting Things Done
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Essentialism
- Four Thousand Weeks
- The One Thing
- Make Time
- The Effective Executive
- Eat That Frog!
Emotion & resilience
- Emotional Intelligence
- The Body Keeps the Score
- Option B
- Resilient
- The Upside of Stress
- Emotional Agility
- Self-Compassion
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Learned Optimism
- Flourish
Mindfulness & calm
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Full Catastrophe Living
- The Miracle of Mindfulness
- 10% Happier
- Why Buddhism Is True
- Altered Traits
- Breath
- The Relaxation Response
Mastery & performance
- Mastery
- Bounce
- The Rise of Superman
- Stealing Fire
- The Art of Learning
- With Winning in Mind
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- Talent Is Overrated
- Outliers
- Peak Performance
- The Practicing Mind
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
Character & the classics
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Think and Grow Rich
- The Power of Now
- Awaken the Giant Within
- The Slight Edge
- Can't Hurt Me
- Ego Is the Enemy
- The Obstacle Is the Way
- Meditations
- The Practice of Groundedness