Educator, Entrepreneur
12 books they recommend · 1 appearance
Productivity as a matter of how people think, set goals, build teams and decide.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Plan and work as if a year were twelve weeks long, to keep focus on urgent tasks.
Also recommended by: Nat Eliason
Extraordinary results come from narrowing focus to the one thing that matters most.
Also recommended by: David Cancel, Alexis Ohanian, Austen Allred and 2 others
The habit loop of cue, routine and reward, and how to change a habit by its routine.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant and 5 others
Two fathers contrasted to argue that schools fail to teach how money works.
Also recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Andrew Lokenauth and 5 others
Sinek's Golden Circle (Why/How/What) is less empirically grounded than the rest of this list, but its core observation is accurate: people don't follow what you do, they follow why you do it. Useful for understanding how leaders communicate identity externally and why some inspire loyalty while others just manage compliance.
Also recommended by: Richard Branson, Tony Hsieh, Alfred Lin and 3 others
A fable of a failing executive team and a five-level model of what goes wrong.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Chris Powers, Sophie Bakalar
Also recommended by: Anthony Pompliano, David Cancel, Tom Bilyeu
Also recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, David Friedberg and 1 other
FBI hostage-negotiation tactics: labelling, mirroring and calibrated questions.
Also recommended by: Alfred Lin, Nat Eliason and 5 others