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❤️ Notes on How to Love
How to Love is a short read, but one that made me think a lot about what it means to love in the context of both yourself and others. These are the ideas that I thought were worth sharing...
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⚾️ Notes on The Mental Game of Baseball
I first came across The Mental Game of Baseball in high school, and it's still one of the most influential books I've ever read. Harvey Dorfman outlines how one's mental approach influences physical output...
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🔅 Notes on Awareness
Ever since I first came across The Way to Love, I've been obsessed with Anthony de Mello and his writing. Awareness is cut from the same cloth and goes deeper on a number of ideas that will be on my mind for a long time...
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📚 Reading Clusters for 2021
Despite the hours of commitment that come with a book, I've historically picked what to read next in a spur of the moment decision while looking through my Kindle backlog. I'm going to try something a little different this year...
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🎶 Notes on Your Music and People
Derek Sivers has become one of my favorite thinkers. His writing is concise and just flat-out fun to read — I'm happy to say that his latest book, Your Music and People doesn't lower that bar one bit...
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🏃♂️ Notes on What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
For a long time, I held the firm view that running sucks. Over the past few months, this view has softened considerably. While running still sucks sometimes, I've grown to kind of love it in a way...
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💰 Notes on Monetizing Innovation
Lately, I've been doing a little thinking about how products should set pricing for consumers. I didn't really expect it coming in, but pricing strategy is actually pretty interesting...
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📈 Notes on Hacking Growth
When I joined my first role as a Data Scientist, I had to do a little research as to what exactly "Growth" was. Fast forward a year and change later, and it's what I do on a daily basis...
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💀 8 Lessons from Masters of Doom
It's been a while since a book has kept me up until 4am because I couldn't stop reading it, but that was the case with Masters of Doom. It's just flat-out entertaining to read, but there are some interesting takeaways as well...
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🎲 The Hard Thing About Hard Things in 6 Minutes
There are plenty of books that cover the theme of "how to start a startup" but few that cover the challenges that pop up afterward. The Hard Thing About Hard Things from Ben Horowitz definitely falls into the latter category...
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💡 Where Good Ideas Come From in 5 Minutes
What kind of environments breed innovation? What sparks a flash of brilliance? Steven Johnson tackles these questions in Where Good Ideas Come From by finding common patterns among notable inventions...
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🌱 High Growth Handbook in 6 Minutes
One perk of this quarantine situation is that with no social events and no commute, I've starting reading more again. Most recently, I finally finished working through High Growth Handbook from Elad Gil...