Books & Training

Find Profitable Business Ideas and Quickly Execute Them

If you’ve been online recently, you’ve heard about Nir Eyal’s new book, Hooked. You’ve heard about it because it’s freaking awesome. It’s one the best business books to come out in 2014–and possibly the single most useful. I’m not going to summarize his ideas here, instead, I’ve connected a few of […]

Profit From the Unknown: Becoming Antifragile

“The general principle of antifragility, it is much better to do things you cannot explain than explain things you cannot do.” – Nassim Taleb “Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.” – Nassim Taleb “They have turned the wolf into a dog and man himself into […]

The 22 Things That Steve Jobs Told Me

Steve Jobs. That son-of-a-bitch. I just finished his biography. Why didn’t I do that a year ago when I started it? Anyway, it rocked. This is news, right? For a while after he died everybody wrote stories about him. I read as many words in those stories as were in […]

Book Report: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

Tina Seelig, director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, put together a list of things she wish she knew when she was going to college for her son- who was going to college.  The book is a mix of practical advice on how to be more creative, how to create […]