Every year for the past decade, I’ve compiled the best stuff I come across on the web. This page is the collection of the best content I’ve ever shared.
This page is a digital library where you can explore ideas at your own pace. Take your time, browse, and delve into articles and books without any rush.
I hope this curated collection will bring you closer to the ideas that are most interesting and useful to you.
Top 10 books that shaped my thinking
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
“The modern workplace is sick. Chaos should not be the natural state at work. Anxiety isn’t a prerequisite for progress. Sitting in meetings all day isn’t required for success. These are all perversions of work —side effects of broken models and follow-the-lemming-off-the-cliff worst practices. Step aside and let the suckers jump.
This book challenges the mainstream belief that business success requires hustle, long hours, and constant stress. Co-founders of 37Signals, Hansson and Fried pick apart conventional work culture and offer a radically different model built around calm, sustainable productivity. I re-read this again to examine how I think about work and how I’d like to work.
- The Effective Executive – Peter F. Drucker
- What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing – Oprah Winfrey and Dr Bruce Perry
- The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World – David Epstein
- The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career – Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha
- Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life – Luke Burgis
“Each of us spends every moment of our life, from the moment we’re born to the moment we die, wanting something. We even want in our sleep. Yet few people ever take the time to understand how they come to want things in the first place.”
This book made me start asking two questions: where are my desires from, and how am I influencing other people’s desires?
“Idols of comfort and pleasure can make it impossible for a person to work as hard as is necessary to have a faithful and fruitful career. Idols of power and approval, on the other hand, can lead us to overwork or to be ruthless and unbalanced in our work practices.”
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think — Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
Absolutely loved it.
Factfulness is… recognising that a single perspective can limit your imagination, and remembering that it is better to look at problems from many angles to get a more accurate understanding and find practical solutions. To control the single-perspective instinct, get a toolbox, not a hammer.
“History smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with our generalisations, breaks all our rules; history is baroque.”
A book I’d read again, the authors drew meaningful lessons from history. It made me less concerned about world issues and realise how far the world has come. Also, this book was published in 1968, a reminder that it’s not ideal to only read the latest books.
Recommended list by themes
Business & Strategy
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility – Patty McCord
- Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect – Will Guidara
Growth & Marketing
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
- The Fortune Cookie Principle: The 20 Keys to a Great Brand Story and Why Your Business Needs One – Bernadette Jiwa
Parenting
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive – Marc Brackett
- Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family – Steve Farrar
Faith & Meaning
- The Lineage of Grace Series – Francine Rivers
- Don’t Limit God: Imagine Yourself Successful – Andrew Wommack
- When Heaven Invades Earth – Bill Johnson
- Apologetics Evangelism – Wesley Huff
Technology & The Future
- Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire – Brad Stone
- The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance – Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud
On Writing
- Several Short Sentences About Writing – Verily Klinkenborg
- The Day You Became A Better Writer by Scott Adams
- Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction by James B. Stewart
- Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
- Good with Words: Writing and Editing – Patrick Barry
- Persuasive Copywriting: Using Psychology to Influence, Engage and Sell – Andy Maslen
Essays & Talks
Once you understand that there are problems just waiting to be solved, once you realise that you have all the tools and all the permission you need, then opportunities to contribute abound.
No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
A classic I read every few months.
“It’s useful to focus on adding another zero to whatever you define as your success metric—money, status, impact on the world, or whatever. I am willing to take as much time as needed between projects to find my next thing. But I always want it to be a project that, if successful, will make the rest of my career look like a footnote.”
Fave Newsletters
- Inbox Collective: A newsletter on writing and creating great newsletters
- Uncensored CMO: Straight-talk guidance on building and running modern marketing teams without fluff.
- Growth Unhinged: Sharp, contrarian breakdowns of what actually drives growth beyond popular marketing dogma.
- Marketing Ideas: Highly actionable, day-to-day advice you can apply immediately to marketing campaigns and funnels.
- Why we buy: An exploration of buyer psychology that explains how emotion and behaviour influence purchasing decisions.
- MKT1 Newsletter: Deep, operator-level analysis on how the best B2B companies build marketing, growth, and go-to-market systems.
- Growth.Design: Insight into how product design and user experience directly impact growth and retention.
- Growth with Sean Ellis: Foundational thinking on growth marketing, experimentation, and finding product-market fit.
- Brian Balfour: Rigorous thinking on growth loops, experimentation, and building sustainable growth systems at scale.
- Growth Case Studies: Real-world breakdowns of how companies achieved growth, with lessons you can replicate.
- Alec Sultanic: Practical frameworks for outbound, demand generation, and scaling B2B revenue.
- Elena’s Growth Scoop: Operator-level insights on growth strategy, experimentation, and monetisation in product-led companies by Head of Growth at Lovable.
- HyperGrowth Partners: Hands-on growth consulting and frameworks focused on scaling B2B and product-led SaaS companies.