Book Summaries & Notes

The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco

This book presents a principled approach to attaining wealth that can really buy you happiness. It's not about get-rich-quick schemes, but a methodic process based on figuring out what is important for you and how to create income streams that can free you to live the life you desire.

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The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco

This book presents a principled approach to attaining wealth that can really buy you happiness. It's not about get-rich-quick schemes, but a methodic process based on figuring out what is important for you and how to create income streams that can free you to live the life you desire.

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Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last is a book about why we need great leadership, what it looks like and how we suffer without it. It's only indirectly about how to be a good leader, but the first principles are all here: leaders go first and incredible things will follow. There's a price to pay though. Leaders just have to put the needs of others above their own.

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Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

Leaders Eat Last is a book about why we need great leadership, what it looks like and how we suffer without it. It's only indirectly about how to be a good leader, but the first principles are all here: leaders go first and incredible things will follow. There's a price to pay though. Leaders just have to put the needs of others above their own.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

If you want to think better it helps to understand what affects the quality of your thoughts, what are the common traps we fall into, and how can we create the conditions to make better decisions. This book is perhaps the first and ultimate authority on decision-making, providing plenty of examples, many that will make you blush, on how far we are from the rational beings we like to feel proud of being.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

If you want to think better it helps to understand what affects the quality of your thoughts, what are the common traps we fall into, and how can we create the conditions to make better decisions. This book is perhaps the first and ultimate authority on decision-making, providing plenty of examples, many that will make you blush, on how far we are from the rational beings we like to feel proud of being.

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Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling

Probably the most recommended blueprint to (micro)entrepreneurship. It's all about finding the smallest niche that supports the smallest solution you can build. Step-by-step, iterating and finding profitability without illusions of grandiose. It's not about making millions, but supporting the lifestyle you chose.

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Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling

Probably the most recommended blueprint to (micro)entrepreneurship. It's all about finding the smallest niche that supports the smallest solution you can build. Step-by-step, iterating and finding profitability without illusions of grandiose. It's not about making millions, but supporting the lifestyle you chose.

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Pebbles of Perception by Laurence Endersen

Living a great life requires from us many different skills and even more right decisions. The way to increase our chances to live that life is through understanding the main principles of the most important disciplines, and use those to be a nice person to be around, figure out our purpose and never stop learning.

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Pebbles of Perception by Laurence Endersen

Living a great life requires from us many different skills and even more right decisions. The way to increase our chances to live that life is through understanding the main principles of the most important disciplines, and use those to be a nice person to be around, figure out our purpose and never stop learning.

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Peak by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool

If you ever wondered if there was a book to help you learn anything this is it. Starting by breaking the myth that to achieve extraordinary things you need the right genes, it goes on to offer both proof and methods on how to go from wanting to be able to be the champion at whatever you chose.

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Peak by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool

If you ever wondered if there was a book to help you learn anything this is it. Starting by breaking the myth that to achieve extraordinary things you need the right genes, it goes on to offer both proof and methods on how to go from wanting to be able to be the champion at whatever you chose.

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Getting Real by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

From start to finish, this book takes you through the (best) decisions needed to bring a software product from the customer's need to production. Through the lens of Basecamp founders, the lessons included are part recipe, part documentation of what worked for them.

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Getting Real by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

From start to finish, this book takes you through the (best) decisions needed to bring a software product from the customer's need to production. Through the lens of Basecamp founders, the lessons included are part recipe, part documentation of what worked for them.

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The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

What are the common ingredients of great team cultures? We all have an idea of what a great team culture might look like. Few of us might even know what that feels like. This is a book that looks at the best team cultures and exposes the group behaviors with the most impact on the results they obtain.

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The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

What are the common ingredients of great team cultures? We all have an idea of what a great team culture might look like. Few of us might even know what that feels like. This is a book that looks at the best team cultures and exposes the group behaviors with the most impact on the results they obtain.

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