Book Notes

Best highlights from the books I read, some tiny summaries, some detailed notes. This page will be updated as I read more books.

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• Agile Selling: Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today’s Ever-Changing Sales World – by Jill Konrath
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur (Derek Sivers)
• Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World – by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
• Choose Yourself! – by James Altucher
• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue – by Ryan Holiday
• Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age – by Jonah Berger
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – by Ed Catmull
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – by Cal Newport
• Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way – by Steven Pressfield
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days – by Jessica Livingston
• Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising – by Ryan Holiday
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big – by Scott Adams
• How to Get Rich – by Felix Dennis
• Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity – by Hugh MacLeod
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship – by Peter F. Drucker
• Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior – by Jonah Berger
• It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be – by Paul Arden
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t – by Simon Sinek
• Mindset: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential – by Carol S. Dweck
• Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: And Other Tough-Love Truths to Make You a Better Writer – by Steven Pressfield
• Now, Discover Your Strengths – by Marcus Buckingham
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Change The World – by Adam Grant
• Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts (Ryan Holiday)
• Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade – by Robert Cialdini
• ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever – by David Heinemeier Hansson & Jason Fried
• Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons In Life (Richard Branson)
• Show Your Work!: How to Share Your Creativity with the World – by Austin Kleon
• Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success – by Shane Snow
• Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action – by Simon Sinek
• Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business – by Mikkel Svane & Carlye Adler
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative – by Austin Kleon
• The Bootstrapper’s Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money – by Seth Godin
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way Your Lead Forever – by Bungay Stanier Michael
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life – by Twyla Tharp
• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) – by Seth Godin
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (Michael E. Gerber)
• The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride – by Darren Hardy
• The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think – by Eli Pariser
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – by Ben Horowitz
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change – by Charles Duhigg
• The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future – by Steve Case
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth – by G. Weinberg and J. Mares
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us – by Seth Godin
• What to Do When it’s Your Turn: (And it’s Always Your Turn) – by Seth Godin
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation – by Steven Johnson
• Zero to One: Notes On Start Ups, Or How To Build The Future (Peter Thiel)