The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

He is a doctor. He is not a writer. He had a very good idea. People pushed him to write a book about his good idea, relating it to all sorts of other professions and targeting the common, everyday reader, who reads all sorts of nonfiction self-help books with boring sentences he can methodically work through word by word and understand without effort. I am not mature enough to feel more than pity toward such a reader. By targeting these people, Gawande probably made enough money to help implement other excellent ideas though, which is wonderful. But I’d rather just read about his surgeries (surgeries in which he used his checklist), which seemed much more energetically written than the book as a whole.