Book reviews, ideas, and things I've learnt along the way.
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Books & Learning
- The Little Book of Thinking Big
- Progressive Summarization - Forte Labs
- People, Ideas, Machines: Notes on Winning the Next War
- 8 Powerful Lessons From The 48 Laws of Power
- Can't We Just Print More Money? - SPE Review
- Nod by Adrian Barnes - Book Review
- 33 Books on How to Live - The Marginalian
- Four Thousand Weeks
- 52 Things I Learned in 2023
- The Secret Power of 'Read It Later' Apps - Forte Labs
- Incentives: The Most Powerful Force in the World
- MarketingBS: A Review of Talent
- Scaling People
- The Great Mental Models
- One of the Clearest Signs of Learning Is Rethinking
- We Have No Idea How to Rest & Relax
- A Lazy Review of Cowen & Gross's Talent
- Competition Overdose
- The Master
- Whatever You Think Think the Opposite
- A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life
- Milan Kundera's Philosophy of the Novel
- Planning of Invention 2: Lessons From Sidewinder
- Has America Neglected Her Creative Minority?
- Talent
- René Girard
- The Pursuit of Success Killed My Dad
- 100 Tips for a Better Life
- The Best Parenting Advice I've Ever Gotten
- Theory of Constraints 106 - Forte Labs
- Ergodicity
- Pursue What Is Meaningful - David Perell
- If You Want to Master Your Life, Learn to Organize Your Feelings
- Our Enduring Fascination With Kafka
- What Kafka and James Bond Can Teach You
- Learn Like an Athlete - David Perell
- In 2023 I Learned Hundreds of Useful Concepts
- 22 Ideas From 2022
- Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
- I'm 30
- Michael Jordan
- Steven Pressfield Has Sold Millions of Books
Work & Career
- Tyler Cowen Is the Best Curator of Talent
- Unconventional Job-Interview Questions
- What Exactly Does a CFO Do All Day?
- I've Interviewed and Managed Over 2,500 People
- Beliefs - Floodgate
- What Do You Find in the Highest Performing Teams?
- Managing Humans
- High Performing Teams 101
- 11 Ways to Make Your Management Accounts Better
- The Org
Writing & Content
- Practice Analytically, Perform Intuitively - David Perell
- Summarize the Canon - David Perell
- Hide Your Work - David Perell
- My Principles of Company Building - David Perell
- Should You Go to College? - David Perell
- Algorithmic Blindspots - David Perell
- One Big Idea - David Perell
- The But & Therefore Rule - David Perell
- Forget More to Learn More - David Perell
- Audience-First Products - David Perell
- Intellectual Phase Transitions - David Perell
- The Social Media Trap - David Perell
AI & Productivity
Finance & Investing
Health & Fitness
Speaking & Communication
Economics & Ideas
- Amazon's Lessons on High Performance Management
- Regime Change #3: Amazon's Lessons for the Next PM
- Why Don't Economists Write More Fiction?
- Martin Wolf: In Defence of Democratic Capitalism
- Thread on Britain's Forgotten Issues
- Power and Progress
- We Need a New Philosophy of Progress
- Do New Technologies Benefit Workers?
- Peter Thiel: Uncommon Knowledge
- The West Hasn't Figured Out What's Going Wrong
- Marc Andreessen on IBM's Wild Ducks
- The Obama Factor
- The Greatest Spy Network in History