This covers the things I’d like to remind myself of. It is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather a collection of things I find that have influenced me in some way.
- Voice vs. Exit by Balaji Srinivasan
- The Best by Dustin Curtis
You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. You can’t start with the technology then try to figure out where to sell it.
by Steve Jobs- When We Build by Wilson Miner
- Motion & Playfulness by Benjamin De Cock
- We Don’t Sell Saddles Here by Stewart Butterfield
- Target Big Markets by Don Valentine
- How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) by Naval Ravikant
- Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- How To Be Successful by Sam Altman
- How Technology Grows by Dan Wang
- The Tail End by Tim Urban
- How to Eat an Elephant, One Atomic Concept at a Time by Kwokchain
- Work on what matters by Will Larson
- Don’t specialize, hybridize by Steph Ango
- How to tell great stories by Julian Shapiro
- How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time by Apoorva Govind
- General Magic
- Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 by Andrew Warfield
- The Optimistic Thought Experiment by Peter A. Thiel
- Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning by Stewart Brand
- What’s going on here, with this human? by Graham Duncan
- How to tell a captivating story — from a wedding toast to a job interview by Elise Hu, Audrey Nguyen
- The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack by Johnny Rodgers
- The Making of April Zero by Anand Sharma
- Make Space for Beauty by Sep Kamvar
- How to build great products with game design, not gamification by Rahul Vohra
- The days are long but the decades are short by Sam Altman
- Where should I start? by Raphael Schaad
- Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution by Rachel S. Gross
- Startup idea checklist by Slava Akhmechet
- You Suck at Marketing by David Cramer
- The MAYA Principle: Design for the Future, but Balance it with Your Users’ Present by Rikke Friis Dam
- Lemonade is 5 Years Old! Here’s Our Strategy and Results to Date by Daniel Schreiber
- How to do product positioning by Evan Conrad
Got recommendations? Let me know.
