“That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.” Warren Buffet


My reading habit has taken years (maybe decades?) to stick but I think I’m there now. Here’s what I’ve been reading and therefore thinking about recently. All recommendations greatfully received.

👓 in rotation

(random order)

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity
The Ministry for the Future
Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
 

📚 the queue

(random 20)

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Who Moved My Cheese?
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
Freedom from Anxious Thoughts and Feelings: A Two-Step Mindfulness Approach for Moving Beyond Fear and Worry
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
The Rise of the Meritocracy
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
How Google Works
Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Forever Employable
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
 

🧠 knowledge absorbed

(last 20)

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
A Promised Land
Forever Employable
Science of Running: Analyze Your Technique, Prevent Injury, Revolutionize Your Training
Limitless: The Autobiography
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Winning!. Clive Woodward
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty