Bookmarks
Here's a curated list of interesting reads for you.
Source: Raindrop
- I don’t know if this is really true at YC, but it’s always been true for me - Why? If you have 10 true, unaffiliated customers (not your friends or batchmates), then you almost always you find another 10, another 10, and so on But < 10 customers? You can fall
- You honestly have to hand it to the Chinese for turning fraud into a scaled operation. - At Uber, we found out some Chinese companies *raised VC money* off a business model of "we defraud Uber" (we were spending $30m+ / week subsidizing the Chinese market at the peak, so their
- The Peripheral - to watch
- Griffith review - Walshy's lead in to A Bone of Fact
- "Schoolboy maths is just the very beginning of getting something like that done."
- Yowie meetup!
- Yochi discussion - Brilliant margins, community, third place
- Jason Cohen: Escaping the Growth Ceiling - Jason will show why your growth slows and share proven approaches to consider when growth tapers.
- David Walsh podcast
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail
- Odessia | AI Travel Concierge - Odessia helps you plan trips big and small with personalized recommendations, pricing, and booking support.
- congratulations to the cursor team
- How Transitioning Changed the Way I Taste Wine - I spent my career creating safe places for women to enjoy wine. I want to believe that deep down I knew I was also creating them for me.
- Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers - Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.
- "You are sheltering a Mythos-level model in your server room, are you not?"
- no more "in my humble opinion", from now on it's "from my grandiose and objectively correct deductions"
- I wired Claude Code into a database of every Polymarket wallet and trades via MCP - Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community
- Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.
- the only time i beg is to differ
- "I made a /seppuku skill for my Claudes for when they make an unforgivable mistake, and now they use it spontaneously without me asking."
- alpha 9 bringing the house down - so freaking good
- lol @ startup people having a big cry-wank about CGT. | Virginia Murdoch - lol @ startup people having a big cry-wank about CGT.
- "He’s going to the gym. Put 10 naked boomers in the locker room soon as he walks in."
- At rock bottom do you want anything
- My body is a machine that transfers comments from my Managing Director to Claude and then back to my Managing Director
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Books
For all you bookworms out there.
Source: Goodreads
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Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
A little bit disjointed, but entertaining
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Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Solid, but too much filler.
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Back Up: Why back pain treatments aren’t working and the new science offering hope
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The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The editing of this book is next level. There's not a wasted word. I recommend it to anyone who wants to embark on a creative process or is...
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Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
Brilliant and heartbreaking, given how he passed.
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The Red Pill: Look Truth In The Face
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Reborn, Book One
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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
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A Bone of Fact
This man is a savant. A real page-turner, strongly recommend as a coffee table book.
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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
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The Lean Startup
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Rework
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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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Traction
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The seminal book on remote, self-funded and lifestyle entrepreneurship. Holds up remarkably well.
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Reality Transurfing Steps I-V
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Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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Sleight of Mouth: The Magic of Conversational Belief Change
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Delivering Happiness
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money—That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
I read this book when I was cleaning trains. It opened the world of entrepreneurship up to me.
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Ice to the Eskimos: How to Market a Product Nobody Wants
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Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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Pulp
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Batman - Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
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The E-myth Revisited
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Ham on Rye
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Women
As gritty and grimy as the cover would lead you to believe.
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Factotum: A Masterfully Vivid Autobiographical Novel―An Aspiring Writer's Raw Journey Through Alcoholism and Survival
Simply top shelf.
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Atlas Shrugged
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The Fountainhead
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Think and Grow Rich special edition (Napoleon Hill - The Thirteen Steps to Riches)
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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The Richest Man in Babylon