Reading
The books I'm reading and have read, and the ideas I'm taking from them.
Read
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Simplicity is a strategy, not a style. Focus is saying no to a hundred good ideas.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
History runs in circles, and solitude is the family inheritance.
Inside Intel
Tim Jackson
Only the paranoid survive. Grove bet the company on seeing the inflection point first.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
The last freedom no one can take from you is how you choose to respond.
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Focus is a trainable skill, and it is quietly becoming the most valuable one.
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
The cage holds because the people inside it are taught to guard it.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Competition is overrated. The prize is building the one thing nobody else has figured out yet.
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
The first self-made American treated character as a lifelong project and prized the useful over the clever.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
You do not control what happens, only how you meet it. That is the whole practice.
How to Listen with Intention
Patrick King
Most of us listen to reply. The trust is in listening to understand.
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
The cheese always moves. The pain is in refusing to move with it.
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
Mastery is depth, not breadth. Make smaller circles and let the losses teach.
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Time is the one thing you actually own. The letters are about not letting it leak away.
Titan
Ron Chernow
The same discipline that built the monopoly is the one that gave the fortune away.
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Customer obsession plus a willingness to lose money for years is the whole strategy.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
A startup is an experiment. Learn what customers want before you build the thing nobody asked for.