An Assortment of thoughts
Two years ago, I was travelling to a developing country to do some charity work. My bags were packed, flights were booked, and my hotel was ready for check-in. Unfortunately, immediately I arrived at the airport, I had to cancel my trip.
I asked Professor Janssen, if anyone in my 9:20 Sales Foundations class wanted to switch to the 3:50 class.
Since this is the Sales Foundation class, he suggested that if I wanted to switch I would have to make a pitch.
One of the less-talked about benefits of reading is being able to “humble brag” about all the books you’ve read.
On a completely unrelated note, here are the best Books I read in 2019.
If one of your goals is to read more in the new year, you should start with these books.
Lebron Inc. by Brian Windhorst is about how Lebron has built his business empire from his Freshman year in St. Vincent St. Mary’s in Akron in 2001 (tk verify Lebron high school freshman year) to his new team Los Angeles Lakers in 2019.
Contrarianism is cool right now. But What If We’re Wrong by Chuck Klosterman is one of the best books that I’ve read on how to be a contrarian thinker (tied with Nassim Taleb’s Antifragile).
You can read all my book notes on my blog.
Dataclysm is a book by Christian Ruder, the founder of OkCupid, a dating site. The book is about the site’s data can tell us about relationships and human behaviour. If you are interested in learning more about dating habits in society and more broadly, what people say they like versus what they actually like, I would recommend you read this book.
How to be a Capitalist without Any Capital by Nathan Latka is a book about how to start building wealth when you don’t have any money.
Very tactical and highly actionable, though I occasionally got a bit of salesy, used-car salesman, penny-pinching, vibes and there are some micro-optimizations and “hacks” that I feel may not even make a meaningful impact on building long-term wealth.
Some people think of the Ok boomer meme as a funny little joke created by “millenials”. I think it’s actually a very subtle but clever reflection of a very important conversation we need to have about what’s happening in society right now.
Thinking in Bets is a book about how to make better decisions when you don’t have all the facts. People often say life is like chess but really it’s more like Poker because there is information asymmetry and luck.
If you want to have a happy, healthy relationship, your primary objective should be making the other person feel good about themselves. This idea doesn’t only apply to romantic relationships, it also applies to platonic and professional relationships.
