Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Review: The Goal

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 The Goal has "required reading for Amazon employees" all over the cover, and was assigned reading for work. It's basically a...
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Monday, December 13, 2021

Review: Principles

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 I was assigned Principles as part of an onboarding reading. I'd never heard of Ray Dalio or Bridgewater Associates before, and I was d...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Review: The Messy Middle

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 The Messy Middle is a book about entrepreneurship. Rather than being one about raising money, etc., it's almost entirely about the dev...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Review: Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgement

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 Noise is a book about human judgement. The book's unique perspective about judgement is that judgement is an attempt to use the human ...
Monday, February 08, 2021

Post-COVID home and office design

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 Recently someone showed me a group photo from a Pokemon GoFest. My immediate reaction was visceral: this looks way too dangerous during COV...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Review: How will you measure your life?

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I picked up How Will You Measure Your Life expecting the usual business school professor memoir of self-congratulation and lots of business...
Friday, August 16, 2019

A Man for All Markets

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A Man for All Markets is Ed Thorp's autobiography. It's a great book about how Thorp went from being a mathematician to being the f...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

How Alexa captured me as a customer and dragged me into the post smartphone era

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I can clearly remember when I knew I'd been captured by Garmin as a customer: it was when I bought their stupendously expensive Smart Sc...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Review: Eccentric Orbits

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I picked up Eccentric Orbits after learning that there was a book about the Iridium satellite system. I'd always thought that the syste...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Review: The Fifth Discipline

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The Fifth Discipline is Peter Senge's management book about building learning organizations. I first read it in the 1990s, and recently...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Price Drop: How to Interview A Financial Advisor

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It's been a year since the launch of How to Interview A Financial Advisor . The book's about matched my expectations, but it's t...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Startup Engineering Management Gets a 2nd Edition

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Startup Engineering Management has been doing so well that I added what I learned over the last few years to it and gave it a 2nd Edition. ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Why it now makes sense to build your own PC

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I've always been tempted to build my own PC. I'm no stranger to the tools, since my internship at Geoworks effectively required me ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Why I can't help PMs, Sales People, or Marketing folks negotiate

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Occasionally, I'll get a sales person, product manager or program manager, or even a marketing person ask me to help negotiate their com...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Review: Aggressive Tax Avoidance For Real Estate Investors, 19th Edition

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While I'm not quite an accidental landlord, since we got married we've had a rental property to manage. There are all sorts of issue...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Price Reduction: Independent Cycle Touring

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Spring is here, and if you're planning a bike tour, now's the time to do it. I've reduced the price of the PDF copy of Independe...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Review: The Rise of Superman

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The Rise of Superman is ostensibly Steven Kotler's book about Flow , as experienced through extreme athletes. In reality, it seems to b...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Review: The Everything Store

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The Everything Store is a history of Amazon from inception to circa 2012. Of all the tech companies that affect our lives, Amazon is the le...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Retrospective: How Nintendo lost me as a customer

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Golden Abyss got me to start playing Drake's Deception on the PS3 , which is pretty remarkable. (I'm certainly enjoying the game a...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

How to Interview A Financial Advisor now out in paperback

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My latest book, How to Interview a Financial Advisor is now out in paperback. For this book, I'm enrolling in the Matchbook program, w...