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Value Proposition Design
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Karl Pillemer

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How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson

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Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.

Grit
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Angela Duckworth

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The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.

Lean Analytics
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Alistair Croll

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Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.

Getting Real
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Jason Fried

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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

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Tools of TItans
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Tim Ferriss

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The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. Mariner Books, 2016.

Zero To One
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Blake Masters

19 min read

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.

The Man Who Knew Too Much
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David Leavitt

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Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

The Disappearing Spoon
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Sam Kean

21 min read

And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

Start with Why
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Simon Sinek

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How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.

Stuff Matters
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Mark Miodownik

20 min read

Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

Traffic
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Tom Vanderbilt

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Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

The Pyramid Principle
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Barbara Minto

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Logic in Writing and Thinking. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2020.

Uncommon Grounds
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Mark Pendergrast

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The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger

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Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, 2019.

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Rejection Proof
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Jia Jiang

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How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible. Harmony, 2015.

Pour Your Heart Into It
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Dori Jones Yang

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How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Hachette Books, 1999

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
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Vishen Lakhiani

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Rodale Books, 2016.

The Effective Executive
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Peter F. Drucker

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The Effective Executive. HarperCollins, 2002.

Boom and Bust
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John David Turner

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A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Rich Dad Poor Dad
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Robert T. Kiyosaki

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What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Plata Publishing, 2017.

Getting Real
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David Heinemeier Hansson

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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

Dogfight
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Fred Vogelstein

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How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.

Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO
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Beverly Jones

21 min read

50 Indispensable Tips to Help You Stay Afloat, Bounce Back, and Get Ahead at Work. Career Press, 2016.

Smarter Faster Better
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Shoshana Berger

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The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Random House, 2016.

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Play Bigger
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How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets. Harper, 2016.

Value Proposition Design
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Karl Pillemer

12 min read·
5.0

How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson

11 min read·
5.0

Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.

Dogfight
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Fred Vogelstein

14 min read

How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.

Grit
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Angela Duckworth

12 min read·
5.0

The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.

Lean Analytics
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Benjamin Yoskovitz

14 min read·
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Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. O’Reilly, 2013.

Getting Real
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David Heinemeier Hansson

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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.

Peak
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Chip Conley

14 min read·
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How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Jossey-Bass, 2007.

Moore's Law
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Arnold Thackray

18 min read·
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The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. Basic Books, 2015.

Go Like Hell
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A.J. Baime

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Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Bantam, 2010.

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Games People Play

Eric Berne

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A psychoanalytical analysis of the relationships between people with an emphasis on spouses, parents, and children, and the manipulative “games” they play to get what they really want.

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