Memorable quotes To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Don’t believe me? Think your idea is worth something? Go and try to sell it, […]
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Digital Minimalism by Cal Newpot
Memorable quotes In our current moment, smartphones have reshaped people’s experience of the world by providing an always-present connection to a humming matrix of chatter and distraction. Increasingly, they dictate how we behave and how we feel, and somehow coerce us to use them more than we think is healthy, often at the expense of […]
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Memorable quotes Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination and being prepared for anything. Ultimately, I don’t determine whether I arrive at the desired professional destination. Too many variables are […]
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by Scott Peck
Memorable quotes What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification acceptance of responsibility dedication to truth balancing Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to […]
Rich Dad’s Retire Young, Retire Rich by Robert Kiyosaki
Memorable quotes That is why so many people say, “When I retire, my income will go down. ” In other words, they are saying, “I plan on working hard all my life and then I will become poorer after I retire. ” Tat may have been an okay plan in the Industrial Age, but that […]
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
Memorable quotes Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. Enjoy life while you are here. Do not overstrain or try to save too much. If one-tenth of all you earn is as much as you can comfortably keep, be content to keep this portion. Live otherwise according to […]
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Memorable quotes What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. But in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Don Juan slowly evolved from the masculine adventurer to a more feminized version: a man who lived only for women. This evolution came […]
Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Memorable quotes In contrast, humankind ascended to the top so quickly that the ecosystem was not given time to adjust. Moreover, humans themselves failed to adjust. Most top predators of the planet are majestic creatures. Millions of years of dominion have filled them with self-confidence. Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator […]
Titan, The Life of John D Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
Discipline was harsh and exacting: When students misbehaved, the teacher menacingly held a slate over their heads. If Rockefeller didn’t excel in class, it might have been in part because he lacked the bright boy’s exhibitionism, the yearning for gold stars; always inner-directed and indifferent to the approval of others, he was therefore free of […]
The Millionaire Next Door by Ph.D. Thomas J. Stanley; Ph.D. William D. Danko
Even most multimillionaires in America don’t live in expensive homes. I recently tabulated the 2007 IRS estate data (the latest data available) for those decedents with an estate valued at $3.5 million or more. I estimated that the median market value of a decedent’s home was $469,021, or less than 10 percent of their median […]
Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
A good book by blogger and author Mark Manson, he argues for a counterintuitive approach to living a good life. His view is that life’s struggle gives it meaning – and that mindless positivity of typical self-help books is neither practical or helpful. Similar to Marcus Aurelius “circle of influence” – Mark highlights the importance […]
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by G. Kim, K Behr & G Spafford
Precisely!” I hear Erik say. “You even used the term I like most for it: unplanned work. Firefighting is vividly descriptive, but ‘unplanned work’ is even better. It might even be better to call it ‘anti-work,’ since it further highlights its destructive and avoidable nature. “Unlike the other categories of work, unplanned work is recovery […]
The Open Organization by Jim Whitehurst
Naturally, the community feels adamantly the best way to work is the the open way, a manner of working that emphasizes values and principles like transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration, and community. If you’re swimming with sharks, your fear might be legitimate. But fearing what people might think of you, especially during times of transformation, is […]
Principles by Ray Dalio
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Unique book – as it was never meant to be read by anyone. NATO commander General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, carried this book with him on deployments in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Bill Clinton is said to be reading it every year… First pusblished in 1909, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a […]
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
One of those books that forever change your way of looking at things – in this case it’s personal finance. It explains why people struggle with financial problems – because they spend years in school but learn nothing about money and inestments. As a result – people follow the path of least resistance (eg. instant […]