Reading during Lockdown
Fri, May 29, 2020
2-minute read
We have all had a lot of time to at home during quarantine. It has given me a chance to read more and listen to audiobooks. These are the best one’s I’ve been reading.
Books
Links are to Amazon out of ease to link to the books.
Business Books
- Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- FREE: The Future of Radical by Chris Anderson
- Competing in the Age of AI by Karim Lakhani and Marco Isanti
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horwitz – I re-read bits and pieces of this. Still one of my favorite all time books. Easy to read and funny, with great lessons learned. With the current COVID-19 situation, this essay stood out to me, if you want a sampling of what one of his essays is like.
Business Blogs
- The “Jobs to be Done” Theory of Innovation HBR Ideacast with Clayton Christensen
- Platform strategy, explained – is from 2017 but still a great overview.
Fun Books
- Beastie Boys Book first of all I LOVE audiobooks and this is one of the better audiobooks I have listened too. It is innovative fun and easy to listen too. I love all the different voice actors involved and the way they tell the story. I enjoy the Beastie Boys but was never a big fan but it definitely brought back memories. I also always love hearing passionate people talk about topcis they are extremely interested in.
- Feed by M.T. Anderson Feed is an interesting young adult SciFi book that was thought provoking and satirical. I enjoyed it. Quick and easy read and entertaining.