Books don't change people. Paragraphs do. Sometimes even sentences.
— John Piper (@JohnPiper) August 23, 2011
I tried something different last year, It took me about 15 hours but it was one of the best decisions I made last year, I kept track of the Books, Online courses, Articles, Podcasts, Videos and other things I learnt from in 2018. Because I believe people learn from different sources so keeping track of only books I read didn’t just cut it for me. I decided to keep track of this monthly because it’s easy to record it that way and I can see trends around what I was learning at a point in time. For a few years now I haven’t had a target of books to read for the year — I don’t think I need that as a motivation again, I think if I can do two per month I’m fine, if I don’t get to read two books in month there must a reason — maybe life was too demanding and I must have learnt via other platforms so it’s fine. What fuels my learning? Interest…multiple interests.
How did I come up with this?
After my My list for 2017 I decided to be more intentional about keeping track of what I’m learning, so since the start of 2018 at the end of every month, I took out time to take note of the resources that I found helpful. For books it’s easy to remember since they are few, for the others I usually just rely on my tweets, pocket and YouTube history, here’s the catch, if it gets to me I’d tweet it. Surely I’ve left out a couple of article or videos due to negligence or something, Argh! Such is life!
How long did this take? Every month it took me roughly 30–45 mins to collate this, 30–45 mins per month x 12 months = 6–9 hours, say 10 hours for the year. Errm, wait, Please add 5 hours more for the comments at the end of the 12 months and for making this somewhat like an article. Yes,15 hours.
Why did it take so much time every month? Adding links & scrolling through my tweets.
It’d be great to come up with a more efficient way to document this for 2019. Any suggestions?
One more thing…
Why are am I sharing this? I feed off people’s recommendations and thought it’d be nice to share mine too, I hope you find something interesting or helpful, we most likely would have different interests and that’s okay. Also please recommend anything you came across that you found helpful or intersting, I don’t know what I’d be interested in next.
January
Online Course
Coursera — Machine Learning — Stanford
Books
REBIRTH: from grass to grace — Juliana Olayode
Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands — Marty Neumeier
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product— Jeff Pattson
Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond — Gideon Rachman
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life— Mark Manson
The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design — Marty Neumeier
Articles
How to build a startup — without quitting your day job — Medium
Your product isn’t done when you think it’s done — Medium
Required Reading for Early Business Hires — Medium
Building a Deep Neural Network to play FIFA 18 — Medium
Elements of Value — Harvard Business Review — Harvard Business Review(HBR)
How Netflix Reinvented HR — HBR
The Lion in the North sea: The battle for Chevron Netherland — Paddy Adenuga
Videos
AI Codes its Own ‘AI Child’ — Artificial Intelligence breakthrough! — ColdFusion
The Story of Content: Rise of the New Marketing — Content Marketing Institute
New Kings: The Power of Online Influencers (Influencer Marketing)
How To Price Design Services & Make More Money — The Futur
How to Start & Run a Design Business: Pricing & Estimating Creative Design Jobs — The Futur
How to respond to the 3 most common Client Objections in Sales — The Futur
No Work? Reinvent Yourself — Change is the only constant — The Futur
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: Lessons in Management at I.A. Gala 2017
Jeff Bezos interview on Starting Amazon (2001)
Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek — TED Talk
Podcasts
5 Tips To Help Teachers and Professors — Gary Vaynerchuk
Cultivating a healthy sexual culture — Kris Vallotton
Comment:
First month of the year clearly pumped to learn alot, I surprisingly started with Juliana Oloyode’s Rebirth, which was a generous account of her personal experiences, Zag led me to write an article on branding, user story mapping was an interesting introduction to the concept of user story mapping, I look forward to applying it in different projects, On The subtle Art of not giving a Fuck, I should have read it a year ago but the title wasn’t too appealling however after hearing alot of good recommendations I decided to give it a try, It is a beautiful book that explains human behavior and helps increase self awareness. Easternization opened me up to the what’s happening international scene, if you’re considering reading it, you might to read my book review to decide if it’s a Yaay or Nay.
I stalked Jeff Bezos on YouTube and I’m glad found Chris Do & the futur channel.
February
Books
Remote: Office Not Required— Jason Fried and DHH
The Islam Debate— Josh Mcdowell & John Gilchrist
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions — Dan Ariely
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!— Josh Kaufman
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions — Chimamanda Adichie
Show Your Work!— Nick Kleon
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity — Nabeel Qureshi
The Win Without Pitching Manifesto— Blair Enns
Articles
The 8 best questions to put on your next one-on-one meeting agenda — Medium
How to learn Deep Learning in 6 months — Medium
Why Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten — Medium
Reconsider — Medium
The 3 Stages of Failure in Life and Work (And How to Fix Them)
Paddy Adenuga’s entrepreneur story and the depressing predictability of Nigeria’s elite — Quartz
She’s a lesbian. I’m a Christian. What she helped me realize about God and the church. — Medium
Konga’s Sale — A Classic Case of “Death is Better than Mockery” — NairaMetrics
Why I Believe In The ‘Day One’ Email — Medium
Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies — HBR
The Follower Factory — New York Times
Videos
Why Some Designers Are More Valuable Than Others — The Futur
Why cartoon characters wear gloves — Vox
How did pink become a girly color? — Vox
The Importance of Being Perceived as Being Helpful — The Futur
How to Overcome Price Objections — AMA Marathon — The Futur
How BIG is Honda? (Largest Motorbike Producer) — Cold Fusion
The Expert: Progress Meeting (Short Comedy Sketch)
Why Does February Only Have 28 Days? — Vox
Are Different Styles of Music Acceptable in Church?
Why babies in medieval paintings look like ugly old men — Vox
Ravi Zacharias — If God exists, why doesn’t He stop rapists from raping?
It’s not you. Phones are designed to be addicting— Vox
Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? — CBS News
You don’t have to be an expert to solve big problems — TED Talk
Comment: Dear Ijeawele gave me my first set of parenting lessons, I delved into a bit of apologetics with The Islam Debate, The win without pitching manifesto and Show your work are two books that impacted me significantly, the kinda books you want everyone around you to get to read — both recommendations from the futur. Vox ever supplying me with useful trivia.
Errrm, Reconsider got me reconsidering what success meant for a business in this era.
March
Books
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners — Al Sweigart
Dating Intelligently — Laju Iren
The Supernatural Ways of Royalty — Kris Vallotton
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built— Duncan Clark
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition)— Mikael Krogeus and Roman Tschäppeler
The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers — Baruch Kev, Feng Gu
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative — Austin Kleone
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content— Ann Handley
Articles
Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers.
Building a High Performance Team — Medium
African Startups. Of Unicorns, Gazelles and Corporate Breakfasts — Medium
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All — The Atlantic
Is group chat making you sweat? — Medium
Stop asking children these seven questions (and ask these instead)
Videos
The Cheerios Effect — It’s Okay to be Smart
Denise Brosseau: How to Become a Thought Leader — Stanford GBS
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga on Taking Risks in Your Life and Career — Stanford GBS
Learn Machine Learning in 3 Months — Siraj Raval
The Century of the Self (Full Documentary)
Podcasts
Comment: The end of accounting was the first non ‘educational’ accounting related book I have read, reading Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies last month spurred my interest, The century of self was quite revealing and longggggg!
Stop asking children these seven questions (and ask these instead), I’m already getting ready to be a daddy! Love this article!
Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content, I know my writing can be better so I decided to learn how.
April
Books
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations — Jacob Soll
Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century — Richard Bourne
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others — Daniel Pink
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity — Kim Scott
Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations — Nancy Duarte
Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice — Russell Brunson
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences— Nancy Duarte
Articles
Why People Leave the Church and Never Come Back — Medium
Don’t Build a Startup, Build a Movement
How to build a startup empire without selling your freedom
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer — Medium
Failure and Old Testament Tactics — Medium
Five questions to build strategy — HBR
Billionaires do not have the answer— Medium
The Monopoly of Evil — Medium
Research: The Emotions that Make Marketing Campaigns Go Viral — HBR
Videos
Jay-Z and Dean Baquet, in Conversation — New York Times
A Brief History of Nigeria (by Jide Olanrewaju)
How to Respond To Price Buyers or Low Budget Clients — Roleplay — HBR
Holy Land: Startup Nations — WIRED
We Tried Making It In “Nollywood,” Nigeria’s Booming Film Business — Vice
Comment: I got interested in the history of Nigeria so I read a book on Nigeria and watched a documentary, Watching Jay-Z’s interview was quite introspective. The Reckoning was a follow up read to the end of accounting.
We Tried Making It In “Nollywood,” Nigeria’s Booming Film Business, you’d smile if you’ve seen Nigerian movies before, you’d understand this.
May
Books
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too — Gary Vaynerchuck
When I Don’t Desire God — John Piper
You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth — Jen Sincero
Articles
The power of storytelling: What nonprofits can teach the private sector about social media — McKinsey Quarterly
Strategic principles for competing in the digital age — McKinsey Quarterly
If I were 22 Again — Desiring God
What Only the CEO Can Do — HBR
Why Do Open Innovation Efforts Fail? Scientists Want to Solve Problems Themselves. — HBR
What I Learned From Reading Every Google Founders’ Letter — Medium
What I Learned From Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter — Medium
Don’t Build for Africa — Medium
How (and why) I Invest In Startups — Ashton Kutcher
New data shows losing 80% of mobile users is normal, and why the best apps do better — Andrew chen
Apple, Influence, and Ive — Hodinkee Magazine
How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession — Medium
Branding for Builders — Medium
Thoughts on Building Digital Financial Services in Nigeria
Divine Discontent: Disruption’s Antidote — Stratechery
Tech’s Two Philosophies — Stratechery
8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?” — HBR
3 Ways to Improve Your Decision Making — HBR
People Who Have “Too Many Interests” Are More Likely To Be Successful According To Research
The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a lie
The Little Psychological Tricks That Will Make Your Marriage Happier
What Airbnb and Strava Know About Building Emotional Connections with Customers — HBR
How to Read the Bible — and Preach It — Desiring God
Videos
Why Some Countries Are Poor and Others Rich
Rise of the Super App: Mobile-First Product Ideas from China — A16z
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech — A16Z
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: I’ve Been Obsessed With ‘A Better Way To…
Why you should make useless things | Simone Giertz — TED Talk
When being first matters (and when it doesn’t) — Tech Altar
It Is Well (Song Story) — Kristene DiMarco | You Make Me Brave
“You Make Me Brave” — Song Story
Why African Leaders Are Refusing To Give Up Power
Podcasts
Network Effects, Origin stories, and the evolution of Tech — a16z
Comment: Apple, Influence, and Ive was calm — the words of Sir Jonathan Paul Ive were just like an apple ad, When I Don’t Desire God is a book that has to be read over and over, thanks Nnedimkpa Nnadi for the recommendation. I don’t think I enjoyed you’re badass at making money. Why African Leaders Are Refusing To Give Up Power was quite an explainer video. The song story videos offered some perspective.
June
Online Course
Acumen+: Storytelling for Change
Books
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy — Tim Harford
One Plus One Equals Three: A Masterclass in Creative Thinking — Dave Trott
Tweets
Dear African Founder — Victor Asemota
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) — Naval
Articles
Andrés Iniesta’s Farewell, and How to Make Endings Count at Work — HBR
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Comes to Terms with Global Fame — New Yorker
20 takeaways from Meeker’s 294-slide Internet Trends report
10 years of professional blogging — what I’ve learned — Andrew Chen
Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking — HBR
The Bad Product Fallacy: Don’t confuse “I don’t like it” with “That’s a bad product and it’ll fail”
The Problem with Saying “Don’t Bring Me Problems, Bring Me Solutions” — HBR
Network Effects Matter Less Than They Used To. That’s a Really Big Deal — HBR
How to Develop Empathy for Someone Who Annoys You — HBR
The Spread of Innovation — The Startup — Medium
Why Emerging Economies Can Do More Than Just Copy
Useful Hacks — Collaborative Fund
Five Ways To Transform Into An Authentic Brand That People Will Love — Fine
There’s no shame in a $100M startup — Tech Crunch
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why — Tim Urban
How to Inspire Students Who Dislike School — Edutopia
Plans Fail — Bolatito Laniyan
I’ve Got Some Things to Say | By Romelu Lukaku — Players Tribute
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person — NewYork Times
“Banks Vs FinTechs — who should be afraid? — Medium
Should Nigerians Pay Their Wives? — Sears Business
Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? — Medium
What’s next in growth — Andrew Chan
From Launch to Seed Funding, The 2-year Journey: A Summary — PiggyBank
Videos
Why the Next Big Thing in Tech Will Look Like a Toy
5 Ways To Turn Any Business Into An Admired Brand w/ Fabian…
Bill Barnett: Where Great Companies — and Leaders — Come From
The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant -TED Talk
Podcasts
Getting People to Help You — HBR
Principles and Algorithms for Work and Life — A16z
Comment: Watching The surprising habits of original thinkers again was refreshing. Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? was an eye opener cause I always wondered what happened to chatbots and why Nigerian banks are still churning them out, Andrés Iniesta’s Farewell, and How to Make Endings Count at Work was touching since I’m a Barca or Messi fan.
Yes, that’s it for Half 1
July
Online Course
Acumen+: Storytelling for Change
Coursera: Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects — McMaster University, University of California (didn’t finish)
Udemy: Python for Data science ( didn’t finish)
Books
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy —
Jonathan Haskel & Stian Westlake
Every Young Man’s Battle: Strategies for Victory in the Real World of Sexual Temptation — Stephen Arterburn, Fred Stoeker, Mike Yorke
The Fishermen — Chigozie Obioma
Intercom on Product Management — Intercom
INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love — Marty Cagan
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams — Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson and Nate Walkingshaw
Articles
When did a coworker’s computer illiteracy make you shake your head? — Quora
What Not to Do When You’re Trying to Motivate Your Team — HBR
Toxic VC and the marginal-dollar problem — TechCrunch
Telling a good innovation story —Mckinsey
Why Toys? — YCombinator
How Do You Get Early Traction For Your Startup? — Medium
How I Did It: Blockbuster’s Former CEO on Sparring with an Activist Shareholder — HBR
The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea — Medium
How Not to Design a Product Like Everyone Else’s — Medium
Tunji Andrews: Looking to Return to Nigeria as an Entrepreneur? Here’s the Undiluted Truth — Bellanaija
10 Small Design Mistakes We Still Make — Medium
Why I Love B2B over B2C for Startups and Entrepreneurs — Atrium
10 Marketplace KPIs That Matter — Andrei Brasoveanu — Medium
Marketplace liquidity — TechCrunch
Artwork Personalization at Netflix — Netflix TechBlog — Medium
The thought father: Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman
Betting on Things That Never Change — Collaborative Fund
I missed the boat investing in Bitcoin. But is it possible that in the future there may be another?— Quora
What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager — HBR
Threads
On Kylie Jenner’s Cosmetics Business
Marc Andreessen: Books I’ve recently read and recommend
Recommended books on Nigerian history
Videos
The Peril & Perks of Updating Iconic Brands — The Futur
Running an Effective Staff Meeting | Claire Hughes Johnson
My Journey from Passion Photographer to Presidential Photographer — TED Talk
Designing A Fantastic UX With Psychology
What I learned from 100 days of rejection | Jia Jiang — TED Talk
Podcasts
Steals Idea — Nir & Far — Episode #13 — Stitcher
Comment:
I took on too many online courses, too ambitious.
Telling a good innovation story , What I learned from 100 days of rejection, Framework for Trust are quite enlightening.
When did a coworker’s computer illiteracy make you shake your head? is funny.
I missed the boat investing in Bitcoin. But is it possible that in the future there may be another? is encouraging.
The Fishermen was my first and only novel this year. A sad novel!
Running an Effective Staff Meeting, I expected something more cliche but this was sublime.
August
Books
How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up — Emilie Wapnick
Articles
The Culture of Work in Nigeria — Medium
From product to customer experience: The new way to launch in pharma — Mckinsey
How to get promoted in a Startup — Twitter Thread
The Six Stages of Social Deception — Twitter Thread
There is this belief that you must build an app for every African tech product or service. — Twitter Thread
Are there cars in Nigeria? — Quora
187 Things the Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix — Wired
Chronicles of A Nigerian MultiPotentialite — Oluchukwu Ejiofor (Aluchie) — Medium
A Classroom Where Everyone Feels Welcome | Edutopia
Why design is the killer app for crypto — Medium
Design Better Forms — UX Collective — Medium
The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users— Andrewchen.co
What factors influence DAU/MAU? Nature versus nurture — Andrewchen.co
Take a step back. Grow up for a second — Medium
Andy Mineo on the Struggle to Reach His Creative Peak: “I Was Positive My Career Was Over” — djbooth.net
Videos
Why some of us don’t have one true calling | Emilie Wapnick — TED
I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young — TED
How Stripe Became a $10B Challenger to PayPal — Valuetainment
Investing in the Future of Healthcare with Vinod Khosla
Start-Up to Invent the Future You Want | Vinod Khosla
Podcast
How to kill your bad ideas w/ Zynga’s Mark Pincus
Designing to Reward Our Tribal Sides-Nir&Far-Episode#67
Comment:
Are there cars in Nigeria? this was funny, The Power User Curve was insightful, Andy Mineo on the Struggle to Reach His Creative Peak: “I Was Positive My Career Was Over” was touching. How Stripe Became a $10B Challenger to PayPal was quite revealing. On Design Better Forms, who would have thought that there was alot to consider in designing forms.
September
Online Course
Books
The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts — Garry Chapman
Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work — Timothy Keller
Articles
Tell the story of a failed product you designed for, and what you learned from it — Medium
Instagram’s CEO — Stratechery
What are common scams in Nigeria? — Quora
Autopsy — Largest startup failure database globally
A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting — HBR
The case of citizen Kemi Adeosun
The 3 employee benefits that have the biggest impact on team morale at work
Making Sense Of Nike’s Controversial Ad Campaign Decision | The Story of Telling
How to develop an eye for Design
Why reading 100 books a year won’t make you successful
Unlock honest feedback from your employees with this one word
Consider using this one word in your next one on one meeting… — Medium
Hate delivering negative feedback at work? 19 phrases to help make giving difficult feedback easier — Medium
How to handle a needy employee — Medium
7 tips to help build a culture of feedback — Medium
What to remember when you’re the boss — Medium
Videos
How To Make Your Idea HAPPEN — The Futur
Gustaf Alstromer — How to Get Users and Grow — YCombinator
What are the most important moral problems of our time? — TED
Segmenting Markets for Go-to-Market
Focus on a Niche or Broaden my Skills?
Podcasts
How to build Trust FAST — The story of Spotify
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom — Keep it simple while scaling big
Comment: Gustaf Alstromer — How to Get Users and Grow was my best lecture from startup school, Unlock honest feedback from your employees with this one word — Good read. Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work, reading this was blissful.
Instagram’s CEO, A different and valid commentary on the departure of Instagram’s founders
October
Online Course
Books
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen — Donald Miller
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster — Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company’s Future — and What to Do About It — Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth — John Doerr and Jini Kim
Articles
Use this exercise to solve any Product Design Challenge by Jonathan Courtney
The Rise (and Further Rise) of Pokemon Go: product lessons learned from the hit game — Medium
Capitalism Needs Design Thinking — HBR
Making work meaningful: A leader’s guide — Mckinsey
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ — NY Times
The business value of design — Mckinsey
Meet the Nigerian Product Designers Behind a New Brand of Minimalism — Vogue
The leadership tip we overlook: Knock out the small stuff
Leading from Joy vs. Leading from Fear — Andy Dunn — Medium
The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail — CBS Insights
Interpol Chief Was China’s Pride. His Fall Exposes the Country’s Dark Side. _ NY Times
The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn — Forbes
How listening to our 4.1 million users inspired a new product idea — Medium
Videos
Why Scooter Startups Are Worth Billions
Mindset: Long Term Goals vs Short Term Reward
How Hackers Could Wirelessly Bug Your Office
How Far Is Too Far Before Marriage? // Ask Pastor John
Why Only the Happily Single Find True Love
Why We Go Cold On Our Partners
How to Position Yourself as an Expert If you have no Experience
How to Stop Being a People Pleaser
Prof G Micro Class: Brand Strategy
How to Work on Personal Projects After Working A Full-Time Job
Podcasts
Arianna Huffington — What great founders do at night
Coco Chanel — “The Art of Branding”
Episode 35: Cryptographic assets
Episode 23: Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) 101
John Kerry on Leadership, Compromise, and Change
Comment: Subscribed, I started seeing the world in different light. A lot of stuff of relationships in one month…I was on a roll, learning abit about cryptocurrency
November
Online Course
Books
Articles
How to be Strategic — Julie Zhuo — Medium
Design for People, Use People Language
Why do people pay for Netflix when they can stream online for free and in better quality?
Seven Prayers for Christian Dating
Videos
Why You Should or Should Not Work at a Startup by Justin Kan
A Skeptic’s View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary…
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Open offices are overrated — VOX
Seth Godin — Make Something Everyday (Best Hour You’ll Spend Today)
How Not to Be Defensive in Relationships
Comments: Mere Christianity was amazing and the talks on crypto were quite insightful.
December
Online Course
Udemy, Financial Analysis (Ongoing)
Books
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism — Tim Keller
Articles
To Retain New Hires, Spend More Time Onboarding Them — HBR
We Studied 100 Mentor-Mentee Matches — Here’s What Makes Mentorship Work — First Round
Smart banknotes will be the cash of the future — Quartz
The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality — Stratechery
Future-proofing higher education starts with reinventing the college degree — Quartz
AI is Not a Community Management Strategy — Derek Powazek
The surprising fragility of a powerful perk: company culture — Quartz
How to Make Time For That Passion Project if You Are Too Busy Working For Someone Else — Medium
Inside the failure of a startup — Medium
Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)
The weekly CEO e-mail — Medium
Product Hunt 101: How To Launch Your Product From Early Idea To Revenue
If Your Employees Aren’t Speaking Up, Blame Company Culture
The Best Books of 2018— Bloomberg
Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla’s Production Hell — Wired
Can you grow a startup on the side?
Why so many brands on Instagram look the same — Fast Company
Videos
God’s Sovereign Plans Behind Your Most Unproductive Days
Disrupting the Disruptors — L2
How to Walk In Fearless Confidence — Myles Munroe
The truth about being a pro (soccer player)
Comment:
The Reason for God, alot of answers to questions I had and didn’t know I would have. Great book. The Courage to Be Disliked, I stopped half way, it was a drag and I dislike the conversational style of the book, it might be a great but I didn’t like it. Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk, there’s alot to learn from Elon Musk and also alot to not learn. How to Walk In Fearless Confidence was helpful when I was feeling down. The Best Books of 2018 offers a couple of ideas for 2019
Whoa! that was alot!
About 2019
For me: 2019 should be calmer, maybe less, I should take a couple of online courses, hope to read more fiction and African/Nigerian Literature.
For you: I hope you take note of what you’re learning and share, I’d love to see it, I’m sure someone would pick up a useful recommendation.
After all this learning, what’s next?
To be honest I don’t know, sometimes I learn something and I know it was enlightening but I have no immediate use of it. Some other time something I’ve learnt is useful in a situation or a conversation, and sometimes I find that it’s useful to someone else so I pass it on.
Follow your curiosity or follow a curious person till you find yours.
9 replies on “Learning Curve 2018 ”
Osheyyy. This is a super list. I have so many tabs open now 😢. Thanks for sharing
Thanks man, Hehehe, take it easy @ the many tabs opened
‘Follow your curiosity or follow a curious person till you find yours.’
🙂
This is a whole lot!!!
I should adopt this method, it’s the sitting down to keep track of of everything that will be my issue.
Nice one Daniel!!!
Yeah, thank you. Well 30mins once a month isn’t much I’m sure you can.
Wow! I’m just super impressed and inspired all at once. Thank you for sharing.
Hey, I’m glad you found this helpful.
This is a lovely article, Daniel. I’d like to write on of mine this year. I’d appreciate any tips and e-books.
Hello Reme, Thank you so much for stopping by, I can’t wait to read yours. Sure I have a follow-up post coming on tips, I’d shoot you a mail anyway.