Books

Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.

7 Powers is arguably the best book on business strategy currently available today.

Working Backwards is the first book that explains how Amazon really works.

David Epstein's mediocre book argues the merits of being a generalist. Instead of reading it, read this and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter.

Ram Charan's 2001 book on business principles is probably the best concise introduction to how a business works.

Neil Irwin's 2019 book How to Win is a tactical book on career planning in a the face of macro-economic change.

April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career.

A book summary of a 2016 book called Peak which summarised three decades of research into the nature and development of expertise.

Ken Kocienda's book is about how Apple builds software in the time of Steve Jobs. Highly recommended, especially if you're a software engineer.

Greg Wilson's Teaching Tech Together is ostensibly about teaching computer programming, but contains a wonderfully written section on how humans learn.