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Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

John Mark Comer

Our world wants us increasingly busy so we hear God less.

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

Comfort has lulled us into complacency, lack of purpose and a mental health crisis.

The Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren

We all seek purpose, this is the door that opens that path.

All Book Notes

Fiction, nonfiction, sports memoirs, and anything that challenges how I think.

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad

Eric Ries

Argues that corporate corruption isn't primarily a story of bad actors, it's a structural failure of governance, and offers a blueprint for building "incorruptible," mission-controlled companies.

June 30, 2026Read More →

Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

John Mark Comer

Argues that hurry, not any single sin or circumstance, is the root cause of so much modern anxiety and disconnection, and lays out four practices for a slower, more spiritually alive life.

May 1, 2026Read More →

Born To Run

Christopher McDougall

Traces the reclusive Tarahumara tribe of Mexico's Copper Canyons, who run hundreds of injury-free miles, and asks why modern runners can't do the same.

March 5, 2026Read More →

Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh

Is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's story of building a billion-dollar company around culture and happiness as an actual business strategy, not just a nice sentiment.

March 5, 2026Read More →

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

Distills 20 years of research into successful people like Carnegie, Ford, and Edison into 13 principles for turning desire into achievement.

March 5, 2026Read More →

The Coddling of the American Mind

Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

Traces campus turmoil and rising youth anxiety to three "Great Untruths" and argues that well-intentioned overprotection is making a generation less resilient.

March 5, 2026Read More →

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

Argues that large, diverse, independent groups often make smarter decisions than even the most brilliant individual experts.

March 5, 2026Read More →

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

Explores whether our sheltered, overfed, underchallenged modern lives are the real cause of our physical and mental health crisis, told through a month-long caribou hunt in the Alaskan wilderness.

January 15, 2026Read More →

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Distills timeless lessons on how to interact with people, win friends, and influence others, written by Dale Carnegie in 1936 and still relevant today.

August 7, 2023Read More →

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith

Identifies 20 interpersonal habits that quietly cap how far already-successful people can go in their careers and relationships.

September 8, 2021Read More →

The Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren

Is a 40-day spiritual journey through five God-given purposes, opening with the line "It's not about you."

March 29, 2021Read More →

The Innovation Stack

Jim McKelvey

Is a decomposed look at how the best entrepreneurs solve the most interesting problems, piece by piece.

March 23, 2021Read More →

Training for the Uphill Athlete

House, Johnston & Jornet

Is a masterclass on reaching your potential as an endurance athlete using low HR training techniques.

March 23, 2021Read More →

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Provides a roadmap for understanding and then developing ridiculously good habits that will last.

March 23, 2021Read More →

The Innovators Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Explains why outstanding, well-managed companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership to disruptive technology from below.

March 23, 2021Read More →

Slicing Pie

Mike Moyer

Is a book written for founders of early stage businesses that need to dynamically and fairly allocate owners equity.

March 23, 2021Read More →

Free

Chris Anderson

Like it or not, FREE is a business strategy that many top companies are using to reduce friction and to gain customers. It’s a movement that has worked out phenomenally well for some and has been a colossal failure

December 22, 2020Read More →

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

There is nothing worse that building an extremely awesome product that NOBODY WANTS. Through this book, Eric Ries discusses the lean framework and a series of related stories on how to use LEAN to make sure you are building products people want.

May 27, 2020Read More →

Running Lean

Ash Maurya

Most startups fail. There is no silver bullet for success but this book provides a systematic approach for iterating from Plan A to a plan that works.

April 28, 2020Read More →

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

Is a methodical approach to helping your lean startup grow by identifying and testing the most viable growth strategies.

March 27, 2020Read More →

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Describes startups that create new things through technology. This world is not limited to Stanford and Sand Hill Road. It's for everyone.

April 22, 2019Read More →

Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder

Describes the business model canvas and why this highly adaptable framework is one that every business person needs to master.

March 13, 2019Read More →

The Four Steps to the Ephiphany

Steve G. Blank

This is the book that launched the most advanced way of approach entrepreneurship to date. It gave rise to Eric Ries, Ash Maurya and Alexander Osterwalder to name a few. It’s a classic.

November 15, 2018Read More →

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

Explores how we view and respond to challenges, setbacks, criticism, the success of others and how important we believe effort is to success. The fixed mindset responds poorly to these things where the growth mindset not only takes these in stride but uses them as fuel for success.

August 6, 2018Read More →

The One Thing

Gary Keller

Is knowing that at any given point in time, there is only one most important thing to do. Always doing the One Thing will enable you to achieve anything and everything you want in life.

January 29, 2018Read More →

The Rise of Superman

Steve Kotler

Is an in-depth explanation of optimal human performance through mastery of flow state. Action sports athletes have advanced faster than other areas as a result of flow mastery.

December 31, 2017Read More →

The Start-up of You

Reid Hoffman

Is a step by step guide to building your career, or business, like a world class Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

December 20, 2017Read More →

The Defining Decade

Meg Jay, Ph.D.

Explores how critical the twenties are to the rest of your life. The twenties are the defining years for the rest of your life.

April 17, 2012Read More →