Books Recommended By
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish is the founder and CEO of Farnam Street, a website sharing timeless ideas for life and business. Prior to starting Farnam Street, Shane was a cybersecurity expert at Canada’s top intelligence agency.
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "I really wish I’d read this at 22 years old--it would have saved me a lot of time and consternation.
To summarize Drucker’s message, 'a person can perform only from strength.'
Push the envelope of your strengths rather than trying to shore up all your weaknesses."
Shane Parrish: "This is an excellent short read."
Naval Ravikant: "One of my favorite books of all time."
Shane Parrish: "Reading [this book], along with Seneca, has really helped foster my interest in philosophy.
Sam Altman: "Great read."
Austen Allred: "[One of the books] that has inspired me the most or changed the way I live."
Arianna Huffington: "I discovered the book in high school and, yes, it was love at first sight."
Anthony Pompliano: "One of the best books I read in 2017"
Michael Mauboussin: "Superforecasting is most important book since Thinking, Fast & Slow"
Shane Parrish: "This is the second time I’ve read this book."
Alexis Ohanian: "I think it applies interestingly to the work we do"
Shane Parrish: "The big lesson I took away from Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, is that you don’t need to come up with all the ideas yourself.
Instead, you can look around and copy the best of what other people are doing."
Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as “Jeff’s Reading List.”
Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.
Shane Parrish: "The Crist essay is well worth the price of the book alone."
Shane Parrish: "This book changed how I see the world."
Naval Ravikant: "Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying."
Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "This book will have you asking yourself many provocative and useful questions"
We tend to isolate the things we know in the domain we learned it. For example:
On the surface, these concepts may appear to be dissimilar and unrelated. But the surprising truth is the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology) offer a wealth of useful tools you can use to develop critically important skills like:
This second volume of the Great Mental Models series shows you how to make those connections. It explores the core ideas from the hard sciences and offers nearly two dozen models to add to your mental toolbox.
You'll not only get a better understanding of the forces that influence the world around you, but you'll learn how to direct those forces to create outsized advantages in the areas of your life that matter most to you.
