Below are my summarized / high level notes from a few books that I found particularly insightful. I earlier used to save these notes on my personal Google Keep but I’ve decided to open source these based on popular demand.
Note: Reading my notes isn’t a substitute for actually reading these books - but it might be a good starting point since you’ll find a few scattered insights. However, my notes ≠ your takeaways from the actual book.
From my favorite authors (part 1)
Competing Against Luck - Clayton Christensen
Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
How will you measure your life by Clayton Christensen
What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Psychology Of Money by Morgan Housel
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
From my favorite authors (part 2)
The Bed of Procrustes by Nasim Taleb
Fooled by Randomness by Nasim Taleb
The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
Mastering The Market Cycle by Howard Marks
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Stillness Is Key by Ryan Holiday
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
Most relevant to Tech
Secrets of Sandhill Road by Scott Kupor
Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelsen
Product Led Growth by Wes Bush
Product Led Onboarding by Ramli John
Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
Working Backwards by Bill Carr and Colin Bryar
The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky
Invent & Wander by Walter Isaacson
Hacking Growth by Morgan Brown & Sean Ellis
Most relevant to Productivity
Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
Most relevant to Management
High Output Management by Andy Grove
Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Measure what matters - John Doerr
The CEO Factory by Sudhir Sitapati
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Most relevant to Strategy
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
Understanding Michael Porter by Joan Magretta
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
Most relevant to Human Psychology
Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Nudge by Cass Sunstein & Richard Thaler
Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Most relevant to Design
Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
Actionable Gamification by Yu-kai Chou
Founder Stories
Harsh Realities by Harsh Mariwala
Building Trader Joe by Joe Columbine
No Rules Rules (Netflix) by Reed Hastings
That will never work (Netflix Story) by Marc Randolph
Geopolitics & politics
Rebooting India by Nandan Nilekani
Winning Middle India by TN Hari
Investing
Where The Money Is by Adam Seessel
The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstorm
Diamonds in the Dust by Saurabh Mukherjea
The Tao of Munger by David Clark
Calling Bullshit by Carl Bergstrom & Jevin D. West
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