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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates
John Seiffer • Output Thinking: Scale Faster, Manage Better, Transform Your Company
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
James Clear • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best. —Dr. W. Edwards Deming
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
no approach, viewed dispassionately, is measurably smarter than any other. The differences in their yearly results stem largely from one factor, one alone. In any given year, some are luckier than others.
Max Gunther • How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks
Big losers in the South Sea Bubble included Isaac Newton, who is reported to have said, “I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
Burton G. Malkiel • A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy (Thirteenth)
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman) This masquerades as a business book, but it’s really just Charlie Munger (of Berkshire Hathaway)’s advice on overcoming oneself to live a successful and virtuous life. [7] [80]
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry waited in the suburb of Meudon. He was married, with three children, and he worked in the Air Ministry. Behind the conventional façade of his professional and family life, he nurtured a deep bitterness towards Charles de Gaulle, who, he believed, had betrayed France and the men who in 1958 had called him
... See moreFrederick Forsyth • The Day of the Jackal
The brutal conclusion is that the usual result for most apps is failure—but there are, of course, exceptions.