February 2019

My monthly newsletter covers the books I have read over the course of the month, the challenges I undertook as well as some other interesting articles, blog posts, interviews, tools, hacks, etc.   

Books

• The Nature of Technology - Brian Arthur
• Increasing Returns - Brian Arthur
• Behind the Cloud - Marc Benioff
• Blitzscaling - Reid Hoffman
• A Zen Way of Baseball - Sadaharu Oh
• The Yankee in the Yards - Louis Swift
• The Music Lesson - Victor Wooten
• Why People Sing? -  Alexander Jikuridze, Alexander Jordania

Full list of books read in 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

Any book, which is at all important, should be immediately re-read

Essays

• None

Teacher's Reference Guides

• None

Monthly Challenges

• None

Other

• Byron Wien's Lessons Learned
• Containerisation
• Luck Surface Area
• Ayrton Senna (documentary is well worth watching)
• Come for An Action, Stay for the Community
• New Orleans reduces homelessness by 90%
• Balance is Underrated
• Commoditize Your Complement
• Some Uber and Lyft Drivers Will Get Stock in IPOs
• Survival is the Ultimate Performance Measure of a Business

Amor Fati Amor.

Blas

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep burning and unquenchable." - Bruce Lee