Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.Saturday, June 25, 2022
book: Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.
Saturday, June 18, 2022
book: Be Your Future Self Now
Amazon.com: Benjamin P. Hardy: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Be Your Future Self Now by Dr Benjamin Hardy
Master Your DOPAMINE With this Unstoppable MORNING ROUTINE - YouTube
Contents
PART 1: 7 Threats to Your Future Self
Threat #1: Without hope in your future, your present loses meaning
Threat #2: A reactive narrative about your past stunts your future
Threat #3: Being unaware of your environment creates a random evolution
Threat #4: Being disconnected to your Future Self leads to myopic decisions
Threat #5: Urgent battles and small goals keep you stuck, even with extreme effort
Threat #6: Not being in the arena is failing by default
Threat #7: Success is often the catalyst for failure
PART 2: 7 Truths About Your Future Self
Truth #1: Your future drives your present
Truth #2: Your Future Self is different than you expect
Truth #3: Your Future Self is the Pied Piper
Truth #4: Your Future Self is based on what you’re actively measuring
Truth #5: Failing as your Future Self is better than succeeding as your current self
Truth #6: Success is achieved by being true to your Future Self, nothing else
Truth #7: Your view of God impacts your Future Self
PART 3: 7 Steps to Be Your Future Self
Step #1: Define your contextual purpose
Step #2: Eliminate all lesser goals
Step #3: Elevate from needing to wanting to knowing
Step #4: Ask for exactly what you want
Step #5: Automate and systemize your Future Self
Step #6: Schedule your Future Self
Step #7: Aggressively complete imperfect work
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Aesop Fables
The first rule of management is gold
Aesop, the Greek storyteller talked about it 4,000 years ago:
The wind and the sun are squabbling. They are arguing over who is more powerful. They agree to settle it with a competition.
How do they compete?
They decide to test their strength by trying to take a traveler’s coat off.
The wind tries first. He sends gust after gust of a cold, forceful, and blustering gale at the traveler. His strategy is to try to tear the coat off.
The traveler only pulls his coat tighter.
The sun scoffs at the wind’s foolishness. It’s his turn.
What does the sun do?
He sends ray after ray of warm, kind, and loving sunshine at the traveler.
What does the traveler do?
He takes his own coat off.
The moral?
Kindness, gentleness, and sophisticated persuasion win where force, compulsion, and coercion fail.
People want to be persuaded, not pushed or pulled; led, not commanded.
Be the sun, not the wind.
Kindness, gentleness, and sophisticated persuasion win where force, compulsion, and coercion fail.
People want to be persuaded, not pushed or pulled; led, not commanded.
Be the sun, not the wind.
Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.
book list, by Tom Bilyeu (Impact Theory)
Tom Bilyeu Reading List to Unlock Your Potential | Impact Theory
Tom’s 6 Ways to Develop New Skills:
- Always be reading
- Open yourself up to change
- What you believe is a choice
- Be an eternal student
- Become antifragile
- Develop Grit
The ULTIMATE ADVICE For Every Young Person! (HOW TO SUCCEED IN LIFE) | Tom Bilyeu
a subset:
MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY
by Carol Dweck
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING
by Viktor Frankl
GRIT: THE POWER OF PASSION AND PERSEVERANCE
by Angela Duckworth
PRINCIPLES
by Ray Dalio
START WITH WHY: HOW GREAT LEADERS INSPIRE EVERYONE TO TAKE ACTION
by Simon Sinek
THINK AND GROW RICH
by Napoleon Hill
MASTERY
by Robert Greene
ZERO TO ONE: NOTES ON STARTUPS, OR HOW TO BUILD THE FUTURE
by Peter Thiel
PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS
by Dan Ariely
ANTIFRAGILE: THINGS THAT GAIN FROM DISORDER
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sunday, June 5, 2022
book: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
In the world driven by social media, sales and marketing, this is a "must read" to be aware of "pro" tools and techniques used "against" the people.
Amazon.com: Robert B. Cialdini: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Robert Cialdini is the Regents' Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University and was a visiting professor of marketing, business and psychology at Stanford University, as well as at the University of California at Santa Cruz
Influence: Science and Practice - Wikipedia
"The key premise of the book is that in a complex world where people are overloaded with more information than they can deal with, people fall back on a decision making approach based on generalizations. These generalizations develop because they allow people to usually act in a correct manner with a limited amount of thought and time. However, they can be exploited and effectively turned into weapons by those who know them to influence others to act certain ways."
It is based on "proper science", similar to this classic math (!) textbook.
How to Lie with Statistics - Wikipedia
Saturday, May 28, 2022
book: I Moved Your Cheese
"If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do?Over a decade ago the bestselling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to this question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down and start looking for the cheese.
But success in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership and business growth--as well as personal growth--depends on the ability to push the boundaries, reshape the environment, and play by a different set of rules: our own. With that in mind, Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhotra offers a radically different answer to this question.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
sci-fi book: Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Set in the near future, the novel centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher-turned-astronaut Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia. He gradually remembers that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to find a means of reversing a solar dimming event that could cause the extinction of humanity.[1] Project Hail Mary is Weir's third novel, after The Martian in 2011 and Artemis in 2017.
Amazon - Project Hail Mary: A Novel: Weir, Andy: 9780593135204: Books
Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary' - A conversation with science-fiction author, Andy Weir - YouTube
Project Hail Mary Audiobook - YouTube
How The Martian was written, with Andy Weir - YouTube
Saturday, May 14, 2022
innovation process book: Loonshots
Safi Bahcall: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
About Loonshots - Safi Bahcall
Safi received his BA in physics from Harvard, his PhD from Stanford, and was a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Safi Bahcall - Wikipedia (Physics PhD)
It is comparable to this, also excellent book:
The difference is that "Loonshots", besides engaging stories, is also studying the actual process and patterns of innovation, what works and what fails, and why. This could be very helpful for any innovative company and person!
Highly recommended!
Safi Bahcall, Author of "Loonshots" - YouTube
How to Achieve Health "Loonshots" With Author/Physicist Safi Bahcall - YouTube
Saturday, May 7, 2022
health food book: Unlocking the Keto Code
Amazon.com: Dr. Steven R Gundry: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle
Steven R. Gundry is an American physician and author. He is a former cardiac surgeon and currently runs his own clinic, investigating the impact of diet on health.Gundry MD ® | Dr. Gundry Supplements and Wellness Resources
excellent podcast discussions about content described in the book:
How to Enter Ketosis without Restrictive Diets - with Dr. Gundry | The Empowering Neurologist EP.148 - YouTube (David Perlmutter MD)
previous book, also useful:
useful metaphor of using foods as "hybrid" fuels,
with fats being similar to clean fuel and sugars damaging "engine"
with fats being similar to clean fuel and sugars damaging "engine"
Saturday, April 30, 2022
tool: "iDoRecall" & book: Learn Like a Pro
Learn Like a Pro - Barbara Oakley
tool: "iDoRecall"
linked to all the concepts and facts in your learning materials that you want to remember. Everything neatly organized in one trusted repository. Learn efficiently from any device. Remember everything you learn. Save time. Get better grades.
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Jim Rohn videos & quotes
Jim Rohn was inspiration and/or mentor for many well known self-improvement, leadership and motivational authors. And it is still very actual.
#jimrohn - YouTube (tag)
jim rohn - YouTube (search)
How to Build a Strong Character | Jim Rohn Motivational Video - YouTube
How to Set Goals and Achieve Your Dreams | Jim Rohn Motivation - YouTube
40 Jim Rohn Quotes You'll Never Forget @Success
10 Unforgettable Quotes by Jim Rohn | SUCCESS
61 Jim Rohn Quotes on Success, Habits, and Achieving Your Goals
Jim Rohn Quotes (Author of The Art of Exceptional Living) @goodreads
Saturday, April 16, 2022
book: Hero on a Mission
Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life: Miller, Donald: 9781400226948: Amazon.com: Books
Hero on a Mission Book - Business Made Simple
- Act 1: How to Create a Life of Meaning
- 1. The Victim, the Villain, the Hero, and the Guide: The Four Roles We Play in Life
- 2. A Hero Accepts Their Own Agency
- 3. A Hero Chooses a Life of Meaning
- 4. What Elements Are Necessary for a Person to Transform?
- 5. A Hero Knows What They Want
- 6. A Morning Ritual to Guide and Direct Your Story
- Act 2: Create Your Life Plan
- Act 3: Your Life Plan and Daily Planner
review summary @Blinkist
blinkist.com/en/books/hero-on-a-mission-en
similar concept:
Heroic | The Training Platform For Heroes
Saturday, April 9, 2022
book: Be Your Future Self Now
Zero Limits Living Ep. 20: Special Guest Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube
Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy: 9781401967574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Dr. Benjamin Hardy - Be Your Future Self Now
- Being connected to your longer-term future self leads to proactive and positive behaviors.
- With a fear-based or pessimistic future outlook, you're unlikely to make long-term investments in that future.
Saturday, April 2, 2022
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quote: What you appreciate, appreciates
What you appreciate, appreciates. | The Purpose Institute
To appreciate can mean:
To be fully conscious of
To hold in high regard
To be grateful for
To increase
In order for what you appreciate, to appreciate you have to (1) open your eyes and become aware of it; (2) hold it in high regard; and (3) be deeply grateful for the joy it brings you. When you do that, it appreciates. When you don’t, it depreciates.
The Zen Millionaire On Creating Abundance & Financial Freedom with Ken Honda
“Once you appreciate your money, your money will appreciate.” @KenHondaHappy
Ken Honda
Book "happy money" – Ken Honda
Saturday, March 12, 2022
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Saturday, February 12, 2022
Benjamin Hardy videos
Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube (sorted)
How to Grow 10X in 3 Years | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube
How To Plan Your Week Effectively | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube
The 100% Rule That Will Change Your Life | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube
Want Become WORLD CLASS at Anything?...Here's How! | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Joe Rogan's Life Advice
Joe Rogan's Life Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS | Best Life Advice - YouTube
"Joe Rogan is an American stand-up comedian, martial arts commentator (UFC) and podcast host. This is the MOST legendary Joe Rogan's motivational speeches of his podcast "Joe Rogan Experience".
Saturday, January 22, 2022
100s of wisdom quotes
130 Short Quotes @wisdomquotes
100 Best Quotes of All Time @pakwired
Top 100 Inspirational Quotes @Forbes
100 Motivational Quotes That Will Inspire You to Succeed | Inc.com
We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
For things to get better, YOU have to get better.
For things to improve, YOU have to improve.
When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Jim Rohn
Your life does not get better by chance,
it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
Don't let your learning lead to knowledge.
Let your learning lead to action.
Jim Rohn
Formal education will make you a living;
Jim Rohn
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
Jim Rohn
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
Tony Robbins
To achieve goals you've never achieved before,
you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Stephen Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances.
I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
Napoleon Hill
When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts,
the door of opportunity opens to you.
Napoleon Hill
You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
Napoleon Hill
To achieve goals you've never achieved before,
you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Stephen Covey
I am not a product of my circumstances.
I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities.
Stephen Covey
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
Napoleon Hill
the door of opportunity opens to you.
Napoleon Hill
You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind.
Napoleon Hill
Saturday, January 15, 2022
book: Personality Isn't Permanent
Amazon.com: Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story eBook : Hardy, Benjamin P. : Kindle StoreBenjamin Hardy, PhD | LinkedIn
Anatomy of a Perfect Morning Routine | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube
FREE access to the The GAP and The GAIN ebook: https://bit.ly/3vJQtlf
FREE Morning Routine Checklist: https://peakstatechecklist.com/checklist
FREE access to my 30-Day Future Self Course: https://30dayfutureself.com/
ToC:
1 The Myths of Personality 2 The Truth of Personality
3 Transform Your Trauma
4 Shift Your Story
5 Enhance Your Subconscious
6 Redesign Your Environment
Conclusion: Embrace Your Future to Change Your Past
Saturday, January 8, 2022
book: Rationality
book with scientific explanations about "strange" human behaviors
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters | Steven Pinker
Rationality (book) - Wikipedia
reason: some of math foundations for statistics and ML (Machine Learning)
are not very easy for default human thinking
most humans in fact do behave rationally based on limited context ("tribe")
describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event.
expresses how a degree of belief, expressed as a probability, should rationally change to account for the availability of related evidence
Prisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia
game analyzed in game theory that shows why two completely rational individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so
Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia
is a situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use, act independently according to their own self-interest and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action
Saturday, January 1, 2022
book: Working Backwards (amazon.com)
podcast:
Amazon Narratives: Memos and working Backwards From Release | Future @ a16z
"authors Colin Bryar and Bill Carr share not only how Amazon did it, but how other companies can do it, too, drawing on their combined 27 years of firsthand observations and experiences from being in “the room” where it happens. Bill was vice president of digital media, founded and led Amazon Music, Amazon Video, Amazon Studios; and Colin started out in the software group, was a technical vice president, and then, notably, was one of Jeff Bezos’ earliest shadows — the shadow before him was in fact Andy Jassy, president and CEO of Amazon Web Services & Amazon.Summary of Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr | Summaries.Com
- Have solid leadership principles.
- Use hiring to progressively raise the bar.
- Organize so you have single-threaded leaders.
- Communicate using narratives and six-pagers.
- Start with the desired customer experience.
- Manage your business inputs, not outputs.
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