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

• My Life and Work by Henry Ford
• Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson
• The Great A&P by Marc Levinson
• The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

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

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

Teacher’s Reference Guides

•  Figuring out now what my next deep dive should be. Recommendations welcome…

Monthly Challenges

• None

Other

• 100 Images From Cassini’s Mission to Saturn – some amazing pictures and the video at the bottom is worth watching
• Paul Graham mentions that one of his favorite writers is TJ Rodgers, CEO of Cypress Semiconductor- Here is an article where Rodgers argues against diversity for “diversity’s sake”; Here is an article discussing what a businesses’ social responsibility should be; a great interview – Part 1, 2, 3, 4
• Ben Thompson – Google’s Search for the Sweet Spot
• Steve Kobs’ Small Group Principle
• The Value of Raising the Threshold of Crappiness
• One of the best overviews of cryptoassets I’ve come across – “To summarize, in just the last few years, the world has invented a way to create software services that have no central operator. These services are called decentralized applications and they are enabled with crypto assets that incentivize entities on the internet to contribute resources – processing, storage, computing – necessary for the service to function
• Jeff Bezos – The Internet and Electricity Metaphor
• Some amazing gems can be found in Eric Hoffer’s wikiquote page
• An insightful paper put out by Stanford showing how key innovations in fields tend to come from outside that field – the importance of being open-minded and multi-disciplinary
• Niall Ferguson on History’s Hidden Networks

Amor Fati

Blas

“There is only one success: to be able to live your life your way.” – Christopher Morley