Books

Comprehensive, high quality book summaries for better business and career decision making.

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The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg's book on habits introduces valuable ideas from academic literature, but is ultimately not very useful to the practitioner.

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Just F**cking Ship

Amy Hoy's guide to shipping side projects, books, businesses and software — basically, any product you'd like to launch.

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All Marketers Are Liars

Seth Godin's 2005 book is about the practice of marketing in a world of noise. Most of these ideas are now conventional wisdom.

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Radical Candor

Kim Scott's 2017 book is a how-to guide for the people-side of management. Read as a follow-up to Andy Grove's High Output Management.

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Deep Work

Cal Newport's 2016 book Deep Work is a guide to doing valuable work in a world of digital distraction.

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Following your passion is the worst career advice you can get. Cal Newport argues for a more effective alternative.

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Principles

A how-to manual for being effective by Ray Dalio, founder of the most successful hedge fund in the world.

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Only the Paranoid Survive

Strategic inflection points can kill businesses and careers. How do you identify them and prepare your careers in reaction to them?

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Average is Over

Machine intelligence and globalisation means some of us will be big winners and others, big losers in the economy of the future.