Summaries & Notes From the Best Books
Reviews, summaries, notes, and favorite quotes from the best books.
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Managing Oneself Summary (Review & Book Notes)
The book teaches that understanding oneself is key to achieving full potential and emphasizes focusing on strengths, taking responsibility for relationships, and recognizing oneself as a knowledge worker.
WritingMarch 25, 2023
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay (Review & Book Notes)
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay explains why your twenties matter – and how to make the most of them now. I felt like the author has been talking to me through the stories and powerful insights shared in the book.
WritingJanuary 3, 2023
The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Review & Book Notes)
The Art of War is a great book for anyone interested in strategy, tactics and high-level management. It's quite hard to read for a beginner or a non-native English speaker but it's easy enough to get value for any reader.
WritingJanuary 3, 2023
The Startup of You Summary (Review & Book Notes)
An unorthodox book about career building. Highly recommended to college students, recent graduates, and people under 30 years old.
WritingOctober 12, 2022
The Luck Factor Summary (Review & Book Notes)
If you ever wanted to understand how luck works, this is the book you want to read. It presents a couple of very interesting ideas to understand luck, and how we can make it work in our lives.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
Little Bets Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Interesting book that teaches you the power of testing new things by developing “little bets”. Not a new concept for a lean entrepreneur, although this book is focused on the everyday life rather than to entrepreneurship.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
The Personal MBA Summary (Review & Book Notes)
If are a self-learner, and have no business background, this book teaches you basic concepts on starting, growing and managing any business.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
The Obstacle Is The Way Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A philosophy book about being a stoic in the 21st century. Interesting, well-writen and useful, anyone can benefit from this book.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
The Little Book of Talent Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A condensed version of The Talent Code. You'll learn the 52 principles of talent acquisition. Very interesting and to the point.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Summary (Review & Book Notes
A book made of small nonelated essays, almost as if it was a blog, ranging from skill acquisition and skill development to happiness.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
Positioning Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Positioning is a key business concept nobody understands. This book will teach you what it is and how to use it.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
Nail It Then Scale It Summary (Review & Book Notes)
This book will teach you how to create your own startup, nail the problem it solves, and scale it. A terrific book.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
Lean Analytics Summary (Review & Book Notes)
The best book about analytics for startup that you’ll ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough for tech entrepreneurs.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
Running Lean Summary (Review & Book Notes)
The perfect accompanying book for The Lean Startup, although more action-oriented than the former. It will teach you how to start a startup.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A marketing book for entrepreneurs and business owners that want to learn how to market their business like a pro. This book is all tactics, no B.S.
WritingOctober 11, 2022
The Lean Startup Summary (Review & Book Notes)
The book that changed the entrepreneurial world. It teaches you not only how to start a tech company, but how to think about them.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
The Happiness Hypothesis Summary (Review & Book Notes)
An interesting book that analyzes happiness from a psychological and phylosophical standpoint by an astounding philosopher.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
The First 20 Hours Summary (Review & Book Notes)
The key to learn any skill is to define what you think is "good enough", and focus on the small parts that make that "good enough" skill.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
So Good They Can't Ignore You Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A book that changed my life forever. Thanks to this book, I decided to start working on my skills, instead of focusing on “my passions.”
WritingOctober 10, 2022
The Power of Habit Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A great book that will teach you why you should focus on your habits (rather than the actions or outcomes), how to create and maintain them.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
Scientific Advertising Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A true advertising classic that will teach you how to think as a professional advertiser.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
Rework Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Another book from Fried and DHH that teaches you how to think about business, life and your career. Unorthodox, highly usable, and unique.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
Startup Growth Engines Summary (Review & Book Notes)
If you are a growth hacker, you’ll love this book. It teaches you what some of the most famous and innovative startups of the last 5 to 10 years did to grow themselves.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
Maximize Your Potential Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Maximize Your Potential is a compilation of books. This book will teach you things like networking, developing new habits and skills, and re-creating your career.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
Just Listen Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Listening is one of the most important qualities anyone can have. However, most people don't know how to do it. So if you have trouble listening to other people, this is the book you want to read.
WritingOctober 10, 2022
Choose Yourself! Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A manifesto to become a better person. Shocking, bold and unorthodox, this book will force you to think about yourself, who you are, and where you want to be.
WritingOctober 4, 2022
Anything You Want Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A great short book that teaches you that you can get anything you want out of life if you do things your way (ergo the name of the book).
WritingOctober 4, 2022
Crossing the Chasm Summary (Review & Book Notes)
A must read for any tech entrepreneur. It explains the concept of the "Chasm"; the gap between the "early adopters" and mainstream customers.
WritingOctober 3, 2022
Mindset Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Mindset by Carol Dweck will transform your thinking. It will show how many times you gave up in life because of the fixed mindset.
WritingSeptember 30, 2022
Rich Dad Poor Dad Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Learn what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not.
WritingSeptember 30, 2022
The Power of Now Summary (Review & Book Notes)
Detailed summary of a classic guide to modern day spiritual enlightenment.
WritingSeptember 26, 2022
Habits of a Happy Brain Summary (Review & Book Notes)
This book explains how you can retrain your brain to boost serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins levels.
WritingSeptember 25, 2022