My last books review was in July. Just like that, wha-bam, and half a year’s gone! The bitcoin posts were getting monotonous…hope this helps :) If you’re going to pick one from the bunch, make it 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques [Kindle]. Unfortunately there is no ebook version, but I can lend you my … Continue reading Much books
A particularly fertile month, quotes-wise. I was in a Rilke reading binge…what a writer. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. – Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance After innumerable times hearing some friend or writer … Continue reading Random quotes: “It doesn’t get any easier, you just get faster” – Greg Lemond
1. Sarah Lacy on Kleiner Perkins [link] – high-performance is difficult to maintain in a hits-driven business… 2. French cafe charges more if you’re rude [link] 3. Desiderata by Max Ehrmann [link] – “Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.” 4. GQ profile on Avicii [link] – article makes … Continue reading Recent interesting articles
Here are books I finished in October and November. It was a less productive book-reading period, due to a recent obsession with video games and with reading about bitcoin. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Having read his previous books (Tipping Point, Blink, What The Dog Saw, and Outliers), this one shot to the front … Continue reading Books I recently enjoyed: Malcolm Gladwell, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, and Haruki Murakami
When I launched The Startup Textbook a month ago, I had grand visions for a beautiful textbook of the web’s best startup content. I enjoy curating, reading, and summarizing startup content. But unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy the process of creating a textbook from scratch. That’s why the newsletter has been going well (and is FUN … Continue reading Seed Fundraising 101: The best articles, blog posts, and Quora threads