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Learning to Learn and the Navigation of Moods by Gloria Flores

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary Emotional engagement is essential to progressing up the ladder of skill acquisition. Handling negative emotions that come with failure is hard and this book sets out to provide a guide for how to cope in these tough times Key Takeaways Moods & Learning to Learn Outline a taxonomy of moods to build a self-awareness […]

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The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary HubSpots head of sales, Mark Roberge, walks us through the early days, pitfalls, and successes of HubSpot’s monstrous growth and how his sales acceleration formula helped achieve it. “The Sales Acceleration Formula completely alters this paradigm. In today’s digital world, in which every action is logged and masses of data sit at our fingertips, […]

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The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Moog

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary Discuss the powerful shift from a world defined by industry and large corporations to an information-based society that empowers the individual. “The theme of this book is the new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state. Innovations that alter the logic of violence in unprecedented ways are […]

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary This book is a belated answer to Tom Watson’s probing questions as to why programming is hard to manage…Briefly, I believe that large programming projects suffer management problems different in kind from small ones, due to division of labor. I believe the critical need to be the preservation of the conceptual integrity of the […]

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary Ben Rich, CEO of the Skunk WOrks after legendary Kelly Johnson stepped down, describes what makes the Skunk Works so special and some behind the scenes looks at how they operate Key Takeaways Ben Rich took over Skunk Works from legendary Kelly Johnson. Rich’s first big test was his confidence in stealth when those […]

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The Almanack of Naval by Naval Ravikant and Eric Jorgenson

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

A beautiful and more evergreen version of the incredibly deep How to Get Rich podcast Naval did in 2019 where he talks about wisdom, wealth, health, happiness, and more.

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The HP Way by David Packard

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Summary David Packard walks through the evolution of Hewlett-Packard from tiny startup to behemoth Key Takeaways Finally, they hit upon the audio oscillator and sold eight units to Walt Disney, earning the company its first substantial revenues. Culture and the HP Way “But they had a great idea—the ultimate source of competitive advantage—if you can […]

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The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary A collection of quotes from LKY on a whole host of subjects Key Takeaways Lee’s pragmatism and unwillingness to be influenced by external pressures characterized his leadership style: “I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was, […]

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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward Tufte

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Summary This book describes design strategies – the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers – for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect. These strategies are found again and again in portrayals of explanations, quite independent of the particular substantive content or technology of display. Key Takeaways The […]

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte

The Rabbit Hole is written by Blas Moros. To support, sign up for the newsletter, become a patron, and/or join The Latticework. Original Design by Thilo Konzok.

Summary I sought to make this book self-exemplifying – that is, the physical object itself would reflect the intellectual principles advanced in the book. Publishers seemed appalled at the prospect that an author might govern design. So I sought to self-publish…To finance the book, I took out another mortgage on my home. The bank officer […]