This book entered my reading list while listening to the Tim Ferriss show 367. Bill Campbell, the coach this book writes about, immediately caught my interest. Here is Eric from the podcast: So Jonathan, Alan, and I have written a book called Trillion Dollar Coach and Bill Campbell is, at least in our opinion, the most successful … Read more
This book went into my reading list while reading The Third Door. In that book, the author’s first mentor asked him to read the first chapter of When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. This book is filled with wisdom. In every chapter there are so many things to learn, it is really not … Read more
Jack Ma is the co-founder of Alibaba, one of the world’s biggest online Business to Business sites as well as other highly successful Chinese ventures like Alipay, Aliexpress, Tmall and Taobao. Having read Made in America, The Everything Store and Delivering Happiness, this book was a natural choice. Charisma and Vision If there is something … Read more
I became a fan of David Heinemeier since I watched the legendary talk Snakes and Rubies (2005) where he debates web frameworks with the creator of the Django Framework. That’s old tech now, but it’s a highly recommended talk for those interested in how dynamic web frameworks came to be. This book was on my … Read more
It’s been two years since I read Becoming Steve Jobs. That’s about the time I wanted to get to the official biography written by Walter Isaacson. Happily, I did, here are some gold nuggets from this great piece of work. A clever kid The chip industry gave the region a new name when Don Hoefler, … Read more
This book is amazing. My intuition bugged me a long time about reading a biography from Bill. I just didn’t knew which one. It’s not like there is one official Biography about him. Googling then I stumbled on a list of books among them was Hard Drive. It turned out to be the perfect choice. … Read more
I have been wanting to read biographies about Bill Gates for a while. Searching for them brought me to this book which he wrote himself. An opportunity I wouldn’t let escape. Sure, a lot of what Bill talks about in this book is no longer something new, most of the things he predicted in 1999 … Read more
I came across this book after watching Jane’s TED talk. I absolutely love the talk and what I learned about the benefits of games. Self development can be such a dry and unpleasant thing if you’re not in the right mental place, not so with games. Games are naturally fun, we play them because we … Read more
The first time I encountered Derek was in the Tim Ferris podcast. I loved the common sense and pragmatism he exuded so naturally, his book went straight to my reading list. Here are some of the lessons he taught me. A good way to start a Business Derek wasn’t trying to build a business at … Read more
How did I get to this book? I got interested in it after watching an Tim Ferris interview with Scott. Happy I am that I did pick it up. Not that I agree with everything in the book, far from it, but there are a few gold nuggets which I really liked. After all, that’s … Read more
I picked up this book while reading about the Wim Hof method in the book What doesn’t kill us. This book is a great complement if you are a practitioner, or simply interested in the Wim Hof breathing technique. Patrick McKeown, the author of this book, has investigated breathing and its role in people’s health, … Read more
While reading about self-distancing or self-reflection from a third person perspective I had to think about David Goggins. He’s who many would agree on, one of the bravest and toughest people alive. And he tends to talk about himself in the third person. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I was so freaking excited while reading … Read more
There is a lot of good things I have to say about Scott Adam’s book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. The reason I’m sharing this excerpt is that I feel like I paid too much attention to the importance of being very good at something. What Scott displays here is … Read more
I can say with confidence that this book explains habits in the most concise and clear manner, from the ones I’ve read. James does a clear job of abstracting the core principles from all the information out there. I had read most of the ideas elsewhere before though. But if you only have time to … Read more
I read this book because I’m very interested in the Wim Hoff method. The book is but a little longer than it should be. But hey, no problem as we can always skip the parts we don’t need and so I did. I summarized and quoted the most existing lessons, here they are. Humans evolved … Read more
Last time we read about Empathetic Imagination, one of the defining characteristics of self-made Billionaires. Another characteristic is Patient Urgency. It means feeling an urgency to have everything in place at the right time and sustaining that urgency during prolonged periods of time. The Self-made Billionaire Effect explains. They always say time changes things, but … Read more
One remark particularly stuck in my head today while reading When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. Thus, the title of this post. I began to look for work a few months after I started taking classes. The business side of entertainment–that’s where I was heading as far back as the family trip to … Read more
This autobiography did not disappoint. I especially enjoyed the first half of the book. It is where Tony recounts some of his first business ventures. The first one he created in elementary school. The inspiration came from a book he borrowed from his friend, called Free Stuff for Kids. In it, he found a button-making … Read more
The third Door is a very entertaining Autobiography from which you will get a lot of actionable lessons. The thing that struck me most from Alex’s journey is how he looks at his frustrating experiences along the way to success. He doesn’t take his failures too seriously, actually quite the opposite, he makes the most … Read more
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. I started this book because it was mentioned several times in Alex’s book The Third Door. I just felt this very intense intuition that it would turn out to be a great book to read for me at this time, turned out to be right. I … Read more