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Notes on The Mind of War
The Mind of War is a biography of U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd, a legendary fighter pilot and military strategist. John was above all else, a curious, intellectually rigorous thinker and explorer...
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🌍 Notes on A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays from author Kurt Vonnegut. It’s a short and informal read, like chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee, a friend with uniquely lighthearted and thoughtful views...
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💭 Notes on Managing Oneself
We've got decades and decades of career left. This gets much less intimidating when you have a sense of how and when to change the work we do. Peter Drecker's Managing Oneself provides provoking questions on precisely this...
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🧩 Notes on Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The most recent gap I discovered in my PM skillset was around developing and articulating a strategy in different product areas. I was recommended Good Strategy Bad Strategy to help out. It didn't disappoint...
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🎓 Notes on Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman recounts the experiences of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with endless stories of academic and non-academic adventures...
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🐪 Notes on The Making of Prince of Persia
The Making of Prince of Persia outlines Jordan Mechner's journal entries describing how an idea progressed over time and eventually became a best-selling video game...
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🧮 Notes on Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals from Oliver Burkeman is yet another way to frame productivity and time management, but this one takes a refreshing approach...
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💠 Notes on Shape Up
I made my way through Shape Up last month and really enjoyed it. Shape Up is a methodology for product development teams put together by Ryan Singer and the folks at Basecamp..
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🧠 Notes on The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful ideas. These are my favorite ideas and excerpts...
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📈 Notes on Measure What Matters
If you've been around software for long enough then you've undoubtedly run into Objectives and Key Results at some point. John Doerr goes deep into implementation details through lots of case studies...
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🕹 Notes on Designing Games
Designing Games is a book of game design concepts written to help practitioners make better games. It explores the mental models, tactics, and processes behind most of today's hit video games...
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🧬 Notes on How to Live
Derek Sivers shares a collection of answers to the question of how to live. The ideas are concise and easy to digest, but provocative enough to keep you thinking for some time afterward...