May 2019

The Rabbit Hole       Jump In.    My monthly newsletter covers the books I have read over the course of the month, the challenges I undertook, and some other interesting articles, blog posts, interviews, tools, hacks, etc.    Books The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz Big shout out to Patrick O'Shaughnessy who helped spread the word on this fascinating book! Drive by Larry Bird Russell Rules by Bill Russell, David Falkner Measure What Matters by John Doerr Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis Setting the Table by Danny Meyer How Children Succeed by Paul Tough 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 this month Teacher's Reference Guides None this month Monthly Challenges 36 Questions - an effective way to get to know someone deeply pretty quickly but, since I did it with my wife, many of the questions were a bit silly and basic. Definitely fun and worthwhile to try though - especially staring into somebody's eyes for 4 minutes Other The Man Who Sold the World (John H. Patterson) Failure, Innovation, and Engineering Culture with Astro Teller Why Books Don't Work Going Critical by Kevin Simler Ladder of Abstraction by Bret Victor Charlie Munger: Unplugged Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed by Ray Dalio An Uncut, Inside Look at Record-Setting Coach Steve Kerr Tyler Cowen Podcast with Sam Altman Uber and Win/Lose Ripple Effects Bill Campbell interview with Intuit CEO 3M Periodic Table of Technology Amor Fati Amor. Blas "My own personal opinion is that more damage to the world comes from cognitive glitches than does from malevolence." - Charlie Munger     To unsubscribe click here, to edit your profile click here.