April 2020

The monthly newsletter covers the books I've read over the course of the month, any essays I wrote or challenges I undertook, and some other interesting articles, interviews, etc.   

Books

• The Life of Elbert Gary by Ida Tarbell
• Chase, Chance, and Creativity by James Austin
• The Four Steps to Epiphany by Steve Blank
• eBoys by Randall Stross
• The HP Way by David Packard
• Gridiron Genius by Michael Lombardi
• The Mutt by Rodney Mullen

Full list of books read in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014

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

Essays

• Challenging * Mattering = Meaningful - Distilled, the “meaningful” results from the combination of something challenging (PIPER in something that interests you) with something that matters (creating; doing something difficult that others find even more difficult than). When these circumstances come together and form something meaningful, it’s like blending tin and copper. The result is bronze, an alloy so much harder than would be expected that it appears a different metal.

Teacher's Reference Guides

• None

Monthly Challenges

• Learn how two people work from home with a 9-month old 

Other

• Electronic Arts' Trip Hawkins on Acquired
• Zoom Surprise: Some Good News with John Krasinski
• Rodney Mullen: From the Ground Up
• Signaling as a Service at Julian.Digital
• The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach
• How a Goat Farmer Built a Doomsday machine That Just Booked A 4,144% Return
• My First BillG Review by Joel Spolsky
• Top Ranked ATP Men Make a Generous Move to Financially Support Their Unpaid Tennis Colleagues
• Life's Work: An Interview with Jerry Seinfeld (h/t James Clear)

Amor Fati Amor.

Blas

"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he's always doing both." - James Michener

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