Inspirations (Books, Articles, Podcasts)

90+% value comes from 10% of what we read. Here’s my summary of favorites from May and June.  Books  Articles

90+% value comes from 10% of what we read. Here’s my summary of favorites from April.  Books  Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B Rosenburg Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World by Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Read more

90+% of the value comes from 10% of what we read. In an effort to do a better job of remembering these lessons here’s a synthesis of my favorite reads from Q1.  Books  Articles

Powerful Podcasts Exponent Podcast – ~60 min podcast on intersection between business and tech. Pair with the Stratechery Blog by Ben Thompson 115- Business Matters – why a business plan matters in relation to technology. Focused on Uber and their strategies 169 – Family Friendly Disney – why Disney’s streaming Read more

Newsletters you can actually learn from Farnam Street – weekly newsletter which led me to many of the articles above. Also the host of the knowledge project blog Collaborative Fund – Sign up at the bottom. Read articles by Morgan Housel who always puts current events in a beautiful historical Read more

Reading/Writing How to read – 15 min. How to actively engage and learn from what you read Tweet on writing – single most influential tweet I’ve read. Beautifully written and if you follow this you’ll write better emails than 95% of people Antilibrary – 10 min, beautiful concept on intellectual Read more

Beautiful Books General thinking Books Great mental models Shane Parrish Teaches foundational concepts to incorporate into your own latticework of mental models. Volume 1 – General thinking concepts. Volume 2 – Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Wait but Why – The Story of Us Technically a series of blog posts, but Read more