Karl Niebuhr Learn how to motivate yourself and others from this “little brother” of the book Drive. What exactly is motivation and are there different types of motivation? We learned the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the book Drive. In this book, you will learn more about what makes us motivated, spoiler alert * it … Read more
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none. Zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads—and how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” – Charlie Influence: … Read more
Bill Gates has a section dedicated to book reviews on his blog. Here are some of his favorites. ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined’ by Steven Pinker “Although a lot of people have never heard of Borlaug, he probably saved more lives than anyone else in history,” Gates says. “It’s estimated that … Read more
investors – large and small – should instead read Jack Bogle’s The Little Book of Common Sense Investing”I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less … Read more
Hey Musk, how do you learn to build rockets? “I read books…” ~ Musk Interview ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by J.R.R. Tolkien “The heroes of the books I read always felt a duty to save the world,” – Musk ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ by Douglas Adams I guess when I was around 12 … Read more
“The key secret to success is not excessive expertise, but the ability to use it. Knowledge is worthless unless it is applied.” — Max Lukominskyi Muchas veces es mejor aprender sobre la marcha en vez de primero aprender y luego aplicarlo. Nuestra educación pública en gran parte esta basada sobre la idea de que primero … Read more
Learn how to beat procrastination by doing what matters first Did you ever worry about not being productive enough to get important things done? Procrastination is a problem most people tackle with. Fortunately, there is a way to prioritize your tasks so that you tackle the biggest, most important tasks first – or to “eat … Read more
Learn to embrace your desires to accomplish your highest goals and achieve fulfillment Desires not only are crucial for the survival of the human race, but positive desires also make our life more fun and fulfilling. Desires are the fuel of our lives What is it that gets us up in the morning? Did you notice … Read more
This book packs so much useful information about marketing, if you read one book about marketing let it be this one. Marketing is about perception not about superiority. If you want to sell your product you have to tweak your appearance and product in a way which makes it seem superior to those of the … Read more
Learn how to form a successful new business Startups differ from established companies in that they don’t know exactly how to do things. They need to be flexible and make quick adjustments. Traditional management sets goals and oversees the execution of it, something which in Startups won’t work, a startup has insufficient experience to predefine a … Read more
Learn to learn, this book will teach you how to become a better learner We all have to learn in life, whether we go to school or not, every day is a new opportunity to learn. Why should we learn? Because doing so can radically improve our lives. Just imagine how awesome it would be if … Read more
I just watched the episode 3.1 Nosedive of Black Mirror [Wikipedia]. I was impressed by the philosophical deepness of the TV show so far, but this episode impressed me in particular due to its relevance in our society. Nosedive shows a society which is obsessed with rating. A rating can be incredibly useful, whenever we check Google Maps for a … Read more
This is one of the books everyone should read. Knowing how to create ideas which stick to people’s minds is fascinating and useful Ideas can be presented so that people tend to forget them, or so that people tend to remember them. In this book, you will learn how to present ideas so that they … Read more
Learn how to think effectively from one of the best books on the topic Relative value Our mind always tries to compare one thing with another one to try to estimate its value, attractiveness or whatever it tries to identify. This is the relativeness of everything. What’s more, often our brain picks the laziest option possible, something … Read more
Learn to reason more rationally Have you ever wondered why people make stupid mistakes? You might have observed how even a very smart person does an obvious mistake. This book will help you to upgrade your reasoning skills. Correlation is not causation Whenever we encounter two things which correlate (occur together) we tend to assume … Read more
This book will teach you how to use incentives to make the right decisions Isn’t it interesting that despite knowing which things are good for us and which are bad, we keep doing them, sometimes on a daily basis? For example, most people know that smoking is bad for their health, that a healthy nutrition and … Read more
Some thoughts on this quote mentioned by Jonathan Rosenberg. Don’t hire specialists, especially in high tech. Change is the only thing permanent. “I have no special talent just passionate curiosity.” ~ Einstein. I find this statement so funny because it is like a bitch-slap to modern education. Of course the way the world works right … Read more
This book will teach you why Google hires smart-creatives, and why the company still manages to maintain a startup feeling. Ever since Google was born in 1998, the company has become one of the most valuable and successful companies in the tech world. But despite having a net worth of hundreds of billions and 15 … Read more
Recently I moved my blog away from Medium to be able to customize it. Luckily, Medium allows its users to be the owners of their content, which is why it is possible to export the content in a collection of HTML files and one XML file. The only thing which stays on the medium servers are … Read more
Learn why big picture-holistic thinking is, and will become even more important in the future. People have assumed from ancient times about a division in our brain. Namely, a left and a right hemisphere. Modern science has supported a neurological divide although we know that in every activity we engage in both hemispheres cooperate. While there … Read more