Stats for nerds
2recommend
3mentions
2people
2020–2022years
67% recommend33% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- Here is another good thread from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267
Here is the list of some of the good books I read this year https://brajeshwar.com/2022/books/
Starting this year, instead of writing the list at the year-end, I have decided that I will just write as I read along. Besides the 5 odd I listed from a comment on this thread, here are others I have listed from other threads on Hackernews and Twitter. The URL is a pattern anyway, so it will be https://brajeshwar.com/2023/books/
- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur, https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Be-Perfect/Mic...
- [How to Stop Worrying and Start Living](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Start...) is from the popular author [Dale Carnegie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie) of the [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...) fame.
- A young girl's diary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl)
- Greenlights by [Matthew McConaughey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McConaughey)
- How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region
- How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- How To Talk: Siblings Without Rivalry by [Adele Faber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Faber)
- Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
- Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
- Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
- The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
- [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...) by [Douglas Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams)
- [Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming](https://www.amazon.com/Windfall-Booming-Business-Global-Warm...) by [McKenzie Funk](https://www.mckenziefunk.com)
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
- I was in similar state a few of years back. Read these, and used them to a good extent.
Lean analytics. (must read) Product-Led growth. (must read) 22 Laws of marketing (must) One million followers
If you like scientific approach: Influence by Robert Cialdini Contagious (Jonah Berger)
This resource is also gold: https://brianbalfour.com/essays/customer-acquisition
I am also documenting my learnings in a book [1].
- Following up on the exciting thread of the good books in 2022, what books have you tentatively planned to read in 2023? I have earmarked quite a few just from the comments in that thread.
Here are a few I'm excited about;
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell
- How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
- Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects by Gojko Adzic
- Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price by Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
- Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush
- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle
- The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
