Deep Work By Cal Newport
Emails, messages, meetings, notifications—the modern workday is built for distraction. In Deep Work, Cal Newport makes the case that the ability to focus without interruption is becoming both rarer and more valuable.
The books that shaped how we think about marketing, business and people, and what we took from each.
Emails, messages, meetings, notifications—the modern workday is built for distraction. In Deep Work, Cal Newport makes the case that the ability to focus without interruption is becoming both rarer and more valuable.
Seth Godin has been writing about marketing for decades, and This Is Marketing brings his thinking together in one place. It’s a book about marketing as an act of generosity—making change happen for the people you serve.
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on how people make decisions. Thinking, Fast and Slow brings decades of that research together in one extraordinary book.
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin led US Navy SEAL units in some of the toughest conditions imaginable. In Extreme Ownership, they translate the lessons they learned into principles for leading any team.
Word of mouth is still the most powerful form of marketing. In Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Wharton professor Jonah Berger explains what makes people talk about and share products, ideas and stories.
Most new products fail not because they’re badly made, but because nobody wanted them in the first place. In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries offers a better way to build.
In Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout made a simple but radical point: marketing isn’t a battle of products, it’s a battle of perceptions.
Alex Hormozi has built and sold multiple businesses, and $100M Offers distils what he learned into one idea: the fastest way to grow is to make an offer so valuable that people can’t refuse it.
It’s the time of year when resolutions start to wobble. James Clear’s Atomic Habits explains why—and offers a far better alternative.