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You will always be short of time.

So stop spending it on what won’t matter by Friday.
Plato. The Gospels. The Mahabharata. Newton. Adam Smith. They have been read for centuries because they keep working. Kanboombo is for leaders who want to stay connected to the past, the present and the future: one portion a day, on your calendar, read with others on the same day, in the language you know beside the one you are learning.
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Leaders read what lasts

Become a leader by focusing on what will be true forever.

Not because it is old. Because it survived.
A book read for two thousand years has been tested by every kind of reader: kings, prisoners, monks, merchants, students with an exam in the morning. What remains is what keeps working.
Read the Republic and you argue better, even with yourself. Read the Gospels, the Gita and the Guru Granth and you understand what billions of people were raised on. Read Smith and Newton and you know where the modern world came from.
That is how leaders are made. Slowly. On purpose. In company.
Read with others: the same passages, the same day. Begin a program together.
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Today · Thursday 15 October

Calendar · OctoberAll readings ›
PROGRAMS

What one portion a day adds up to

The Republic in 60 days. Augustine’s Confessions in 88 days. The City of God in 306 days. The Mahabharata and the Gita in 46 days. Newton’s Principia in 12 days. Smith and Rerum Novarum in 28 days. The Spiritual Exercises in 28 days. The Summa in 584 days.
Every program here, one after another: 1152 days. And you have read what formed the world.
Begin one and today’s portion is on your calendar. No account needed.
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Confessions

88 days · The Confessions, a few chapters a day · Latin beside English
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Economics and Modernity

28 days · Moral Sentiments, The Wealth of Nations and Rerum Novarum
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Epics

46 days · The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita · a story a day
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The City of God

306 days · The City of God, a few chapters a day · Latin beside English
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The Greeks

60 days · The Republic, a few pages a day · Greek beside English
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The Roots of Science

12 days · Newton's Principia, the first edition of 1687 · Motte's English beside the Latin
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The Summa

584 days · The Prima Pars, an article a day · Latin above the English

Ejercicios Espirituales

28 días · cuatro Semanas
More arrive as we add books: Homer, Euclid, Herodotus and Darwin are next.
Leaders learn languages

Because the conversations that matter don’t happen in translation.

You will always seek connection. AI can tell you what someone said. It cannot make you the kind of person who understood it.
So the readings here come in more than one language, side by side. Tap a word to keep it, and it comes back just before you would forget it.
Why learn a language when AI can translate everything?
For the same reason you still walk when cars exist.
If you want to keep your brain young, give it something hard to do.
Learn another language.
Give your children a second language.
Then give them a reason to keep it.
Leaders learn languages ›
Past, present and future

It also happens to be a second brain.

You will always need a calendar, so we built a learning platform for life around one. What you read, what you thought, who you met and what you meant to do land on the same days, and a year from now you can find them there.

The past

The great books and the great calendars: Scripture, Plato, the Mahabharata, Smith and Newton, and the lectionaries and the hukam that have kept people reading for centuries.

The present

Your days: check-ins, notes, meetings and readings on one calendar, so the day you lived is a day you can find again.

The future

What you are learning: the language beside the one you know, and the words you kept, brought back before you forget them.
Plug-ins

Who would you be if this was on your calendar?

If it’s on your calendar, it gets done. Put the hour of each prayer, the sun and the moon where you live, the weather and where the markets closed on every day you plan. Hide any of them whenever you like.
11%6:3112:2818:24Sample · Santo DomingoSkySomeone who sees the sun go down.NEXTAsr 15:42Sample · Santo DomingoPrayer timesSomeone who prays on time.
31°24° · 60%Sample · Santo DomingoWeatherSomeone ready before the rain.S&P 500 4,969.19 −1.12%Sample figuresMarketsSomeone who knows where the markets closed.
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THE BOOKS

Walk the shelf, open anything

The Bible34 editions · Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, English, GermanQurbono — the Maronite Missal2 editions · Arabic, SpanishPlato — The RepublicPlato · 4 editions · English, Spanish, GreekPlato — Meno4 editions · English, Spanish, GreekPlato — Euthyphro3 editions · English, Spanish, GreekPlato — Crito3 editions · English, Spanish, GreekPlato — Apology3 editions · English, Spanish, GreekPlato — Phaedo3 editions · English, Spanish, GreekSophocles — Antigone2 editions · English, GreekThe Bhagavad Gita2 editions · English, SanskritThe Mahabharata1 edition · EnglishThe Qur'an2 editions · Arabic, EnglishṚgveda-Saṃhitā1 edition · EnglishPhilosophiæ Naturalis Principia MathematicaIsaac Newton · 2 editions · English, LatinSri Guru Granth Sahib7 editions · English, Spanish, PunjabiThe Papal Encyclicals2 editions · English, LatinThe Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam Smith · 1 edition · EnglishAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsAdam Smith · 1 edition · EnglishEjercicios EspiritualesIgnacio de Loyola · 1 edition · SpanishHomer — The Iliad2 editions · English, GreekHomer — The Odyssey2 editions · English, GreekHerodotus — The Histories2 editions · English, GreekOn the Origin of Species1 edition · EnglishEuclid — Elements1 edition · GreekAugustine — ConfessionsAugustine of Hippo · 2 editions · English, LatinThomas Aquinas — Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 2 editions · English, LatinAugustine — The City of GodAugustine of Hippo · 2 editions · English, LatinAeschylus — Agamemnon2 editions · English, GreekAeschylus — Eumenides2 editions · English, GreekAeschylus — Libation Bearers2 editions · English, GreekAeschylus — Persians2 editions · English, GreekAeschylus — Prometheus Bound2 editions · English, GreekAeschylus — Seven against Thebes2 editions · English, GreekAeschylus — Suppliant Women2 editions · English, GreekAristophanes — Birds2 editions · English, GreekAristophanes — Clouds2 editions · English, GreekAristophanes — Frogs2 editions · English, GreekAristotle — Nicomachean Ethics2 editions · English, GreekAristotle — Poetics2 editions · English, GreekAristotle — Politics1 edition · EnglishEuripides — Alcestis2 editions · English, GreekEuripides — Bacchae1 edition · GreekEuripides — Hippolytus2 editions · English, GreekEuripides — Medea2 editions · English, GreekEuripides — Trojan Women1 edition · GreekLucretius — On the Nature of ThingsTitus Lucretius Carus · 1 edition · EnglishPlato — Gorgias2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Parmenides2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Phaedrus2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Protagoras2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Sophist2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Symposium2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Theaetetus2 editions · English, GreekPlato — Timaeus2 editions · English, GreekSophocles — Ajax2 editions · English, GreekSophocles — Electra2 editions · English, GreekSophocles — Oedipus at Colonus2 editions · English, GreekSophocles — Oedipus Tyrannus2 editions · English, GreekSophocles — Philoctetes2 editions · English, GreekSophocles — Trachiniae2 editions · English, GreekThucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War1 edition · English
What won’t change
“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ … I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.”
— Jeff Bezos, AWS re:Invent, 2012
We built Kanboombo on four things that will be as true for you in ten years as they are today.
  • You will always be short of time.
  • You will always need a calendar.
  • The great books will always be worth your time.
  • You will always seek connection.
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