What books did you read last month (February 2020)?
Alisa Smelkova
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Our previous conversation went very well. I put around 10 books in my reading list, thank you all. Now I have to find time to read these all 🚀. So, new month, new books, lets share!
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Alex Devero@alexdevero
- Overcome: Crush Adversity with the Leadership Techniques of America's Toughest Warriors
- Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
- Mindfulness in Plain English
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@alexdevero Great pick! Which one did you like best, Everything is F*cked or The Subtle Art? I personally still can't decide :D
@ivaylo_durmonski Don't know yet. I finished the The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck in January, right before starting Everything is F*cked. However, I am still laughing hard :-D.
@alexdevero Yeah. That's the bonus side effect 🤘🤓
- The Secret Lives of Colors
- Leapfrog: The new revolution for women entrepreneurs
I recommend both :)
February Reads:
1. The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger (Definitely a must read)
2. The Great Mental Models - Shane Parrish
3. Data and Reality - William Kent
4. Angel - Jason Calacanis
If you want more book recommendations, you can check this blog post on my 2019 reading list: https://www.masharty.com/blog/my...
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
@deephdave Try Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg. I found this to be much better than The Great Mental Models.
@deephdave Love the book by Shane Parrish!
@deephdave @ivaylo_durmonski Try Super Thinking.
@deephdave @alexdevero Yes, for sure. Thanks!
Cake Equity
-Sex on the Moon
-Take the Stairs
-started reading The Mastermind
-started reading Influence
Pamera - The Poem Camera
@wildkat422 Interesting set of books. I love influence. Definitely worth reading
- How to Build a Car by Adrian Newey
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- Speed Secrets by Ross Bentley
Bill is Fun
The Tell by Matthew Hertenstein
- Roadside Picnic
- Hard to Be a God
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Inhabited Island
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@pavel_shkliaev Wow, great number of classic literature. I haven't read 1984. What's your opinion about it? Did you read "We" by Zamyatin?
@alisa_smelkova I didn’t read Zamyatin. By the way, I’m just thinking about reading it. I have been looking at "We" for a long time
@pavel_shkliaev @alisa_smelkova We by Eugene Zamyatin is such an amazing book! Way better than 1984. I read it only last month and felt why did I not hear about it earlier: https://bubblin.io/cover/we-by-e...
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Walking the Nile by Levison Wood
Another hit from @bhorowitz - "What you Do is Who you Are" and "The Messy Middle" by @scottbelsky 💯
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@alisa_smelkova indeed (or at least their profiles are 😅) "The Messy Middle" was even launched on PH https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Hey folks,
Here are my reads for February:
- Built to Last by James Collins and Jerry Porras
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
-The Little Book of Stoicism by Jonas Salzgeber
- The Manual by Epictetus
I also wrote summaries for all of them - if you're interested.
Introducing Wittgenstein A Graphic Guide by John Heaton, Judy Groves
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Just finished reading Iron Gold - book #4 in the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. I started it in February and just had time to finish it this week
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Hi! Are you going to do one for March as well?
I read two books:
1. Chanel Miller's memoir Know My Name per my own experience as a survivor and the nature of my app
2. Minda Hart's book The Memo per my own experiences in corporate america and my effort to ensure equity for all women in my company (and anyplace where I have a seat at the table)
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I'm in the middle of Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Mindfullness. From quitting smoking to conquering a fear of flying, the man just has a way of hypnotizing readers into bettering themselves on a wide array of fronts.
I started the wheel of time series, been great so far.
I read Obviously Awesome by April Dunford - absolutely recommend to really understand positioning.
I also read Rob Walling's Start Marketing The Day You Start Coding, which is a compilation of some of his best articles and he provides it as a free ebook! https://robwalling.com/assets/eb...
Pamera - The Poem Camera
@lena_sesardic Cool. What's the take away from Obviously Awesome?
@4th_roommate she provides a 10 step process that helps you re evaluate and reconstruct your positioning statement. Her main point is that the category you define your product in can either help you or hurt you depending on what light it puts you in and adjusting that can save u. There’s a good article on the Userlist blog about how they used her framework for their product to fix their positioning and finally got a lot of customers. https://userlist.com/positioning...
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