A running list of my recommendations - the articles, books, documentaries, and videos that have influenced my thinking.
Articles I Love
- The Epsilon Method
- How to Finally Make Something
- Multi Layered Calendars
- Insight Porn
- Shape Up
- Pick Practical Principles
- Charts & Checklists for Serious Dreamers
- Are You Serious?
- Operating Permissionless
- Skin in the game
- Agency Expanding Experiments
- Don't offer free stuff if you have nothing to sell
- Meditations on Moloch
- The Reason You are Stuck
- 100 Rules To Live By
- Learn in Public
- Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel
- Things you are allowed to do
- Everything Must Be Paid for Twice
- Friendcatchers
- Who Are You Afraid of?
- My favorite fable
- Why Books Don't Work
- 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You A Better Person
- Nobody Tells This To Beginners
- How to get rich without getting lucky
- Self Help Junkies
- Don't call yourself a programmer
- The Organised Professional
- What is the Monkeysphere?
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
- The Never Ending Now
- Future You
- 5 Problems With The Self Help Industry
- Becoming a Magician
- Maker's Schedule, Managers Schedule
- Why 80% of reading is wasted time
- Do Something
- Getting Things Done
- Stop spending so much time in your head
- The Hunt For The Death Valley Germans
- How Anna Delvey Tricked New York
- Raising the Dead
- The Mastermind
Documentaries Worth Watching
- For Sama
- Tell me who I am
- The King of Kong
- Elin
- 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
- Tim's Vermeer
- Icarus
- The Rescue
- Minding the Gap
- Free Solo
- Jiro, Dreams of Sushi
- My Octopus Teacher
- Don't F**k With Cats
- AlphaGo
- Restrepo
Books That Changed My Thinking
- Influence
- Running Lean
- Getting Things Done
- Never Split the Difference
- Pitch Anything
- Make: A Bootstrappers Handbook
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT
- Grip
- Code
- The Software Engineers Guidebook
- Four Thousand Weeks
- The Psychology of Money