Books

• Small Giants by Bo Burlingham
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• The Power of Moments by Chip & Dan Heath
• Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
• The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
• The Captain Class by Sam Walker
• The Mindful Athlete by George Mumford
• Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Stephen Mitchell
• Fiber by Susan Crawford
• Moving the Mountain by Li Lu

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

• The Industrialists

Teacher’s Reference Guides

• None

Monthly Challenges

• Fred Wilson’s MBA Mondays – Fred clarified a lot about the startup world, from fundraising to exits and everything in between. Some of my favorites:
  • The Management Team Guest Posts – Matt Blumberg, Joel Spolsky, Phil Sugar, Jerry Colonna
  • Culture – Susan Loh, Scott Kurnit, Dana Ardi
  • Sustainability: How to be in Business Forever – 1, 2, 3,4

Other

• Michelin Restaurants and Fabulous Wines: Inside the Secret Team Dinners that Have Built the Spurs’ Dynasty
• Open Letter to the AirBnb Community
• Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
• What 7 Years at AirBnb Taught Me About Building A Company
• Letter to Ducks Nation
• Peter Attia Podcast with Matthew Walker on Sleep (3 parts)
• Invest Like the Best Podcast with Peter Zeihan on the future of politics
• Ferriss podcast with Eric Schmidt
• If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales?
• How to Write Emails With Military Precision
• Sarah Lacy with John Doerr
• Inflammation May be the Root of All Preventable Disease

Amor Fati Amor.

Blas

“Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point.” – Frederick Maitland