Lessons:
• Probably the best book written on human behavior
• You will learn how to be aware of your own bias
• Make better decisions by understanding your blind spots
Books every entrepreneur should read in 2022 (and why):
Lessons:
• Probably the best book written on human behavior
• You will learn how to be aware of your own bias
• Make better decisions by understanding your blind spots
Lessons:
• Why big companies miss disruptive innovations
• Big companies demand quantification of market size
• Disruptive markets in their infancy can’t be quantified
Lessons:
• Competition is for losers
• Monopolies are actually good
• Large TAM’s are overrated
Lessons:
• Business is about people
• You’re selling to people (customers) or hiring people (employees)
• This book helps you get better at both
Lessons:
• Uber faced so much resistance when it was launching
• If you're building a product in a market where there are large incumbents, take lessons from this book
Lessons:
• Stories from the army on how to lead teams
• Good leaders take ownership of what they do
• Good leaders take ownership of what happens to their team
Lessons:
• Change your life by taking small steps
• Small steps become part of your routine until a new habit is formed
Lessons:
• How to think in terms of systems and processes for your business
• A good business can function without the owner being involved in everything
• This comes down to building great processes to fulfill the work you do
Lessons:
• How to think about MVPs for your launch
• This book crystallized the notion of validating your learnings via quick experiments
• Throw out the business plan, take action and test the market quickly
Lessons:
• Compound Growth is the 8th wonder of the world
• This book dives into how compound growth can improve your life
• You overestimate what you can do in a day and underestimate what you can do in a year
Lessons:
• We all have fears, doubts, and suffer from analysis paralysis
• This book is a great reminder that fear is normal
• You will learn how to embrace your fears and take action anyway
Lessons:
• A new perspective on how to handle conflict
• How to change someone’s mind when they’re being stubborn
• How to build and nurture a passion
Lessons:
• Most people assume that the developing world is behind
• This book turns that assumption on its head
• Building for emerging markets allows you to import high-impact and low-cost innovations to developed markets
Lessons:
• Netflix has one of the most unique corporate cultures
• A must-read as build your own company and think about culture
• This book written by the CEO dives into why Netflix came up with policies on: feedback and unlimited vacations
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Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
Moats should be:
- Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you)
- Skills that are rare and valuable
- Legible
- Compounding over time
- Unique to your own talents & interests https://t.co/bB3k1YcH5b
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
People talk about \u201cpassive income\u201d a lot but not about \u201cpassive social capital\u201d or \u201cpassive networking\u201d or \u201cpassive knowledge gaining\u201d but that\u2019s what you can architect if you have a thing and it grows over time without intensive constant effort to sustain it
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) November 22, 2018
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
Things that look like moats but likely aren\u2019t or may fade:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
- Proprietary networks
- Being something other than one of the best at any tournament style-game
- Many "awards"
- Twitter followers or general reach without "respect"
- Anything that depends on information asymmetry https://t.co/abjxesVIh9
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
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10 competitive advantages that will trump talent (2/10)
Some harsh truths you probably don’t want to hear (3/10)
10 significant lies you’re told about the world (4/10)
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I interviewed 5 billionaires this week
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) January 23, 2021
I asked them to share their lessons learned on startups, life and entrepreneurship:
Here's what they told me:
10 competitive advantages that will trump talent (2/10)
To outperform, you need serious competitive advantages.
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) March 20, 2021
But contrary to what you have been told, most of them don't require talent.
10 competitive advantages that you can start developing today:
Some harsh truths you probably don’t want to hear (3/10)
I\u2019ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) January 3, 2021
Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.
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10 significant lies you’re told about the world (4/10)
THREAD: 10 significant lies you're told about the world.
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