Shane Parrish

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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.

Rework

Rework

Jason Fried

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Andrew Wilkinson: "One of my most recommended business books"

Seth Godin: "This book will make you uncomfortable. Depending on what you do all day, it might make you extremely uncomfortable. That's a very good thing, because you deserve it. We all do.

Jason and David have broken all the rules and won. Again and again they've demonstrated that the regular way isn't necessarily the right way. They just don't say it, they do it. And they do it better than just about anyone has any right to expect.

This book is short, fast, sharp and ready to make a difference. It takes no prisoners, spares no quarter, and gives you no place to hide, all at the same time.

There, my review is almost as long as the first chapter of the book. I can't imagine what possible excuse you can dream up for not buying this book for every single person you work with, right now."

Mark Cuban: “If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time.

A must read for every entrepreneur.”

Shane Parrish: "This book showed me that I wasn’t alone or crazy. Other people think about the workplace like I do too."

Tony Hsieh: “The wisdom in these pages is edgy yet simple, straightforward, and proven. Read this book multiple times to help give you the courage you need to get out there and make something great.”

Jeff Bezos: “Unperturbed by conventional wisdom, Jason and David start fresh and rewrite the rules of business. Their approach turns out to be as successful as it is counter-intuitive.”

Tim Ferriss: "I encourage people to think of [Rework] as an Elements of Style for building profitable businesses in a web-savvy world.

Each chapter is 2-5 pages long and delivers their tactics and principles fat-free, without fluff. Just like their business models."

The Great Mental Models

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Shane Parrish: "A great read."

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Shane Parrish: "A must read."

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Diogenes Laertius
Meditations
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Lessons of History
Rework
Superforecasting
Antifragile
Man's Search for Meaning
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
When Genius Failed
Sam Walton
Same As Ever
Think Twice
Charlie Munger
Mindfulness in Plain English
The Power Broker
Seeking Wisdom
Living Within Limits
Managing Oneself
How to Read a Book
The Great Mental Models
Walter Benjamin
Powers of Two
Steal Like an Artist
Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons
Obvious Adams
Dataclysm
Adultery
Goethe’s Poems and Aphorisms
David Foster Wallace
The Letters of William Godwin
Different
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bet With the Best
How to Get Lucky
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
Happiness
Mess
The Utopia of Rules
Immortality
Being Wrong
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?
Diaminds
The Unquiet Grave
Applied Minds
The Essential Wooden
Sit Like a Buddha
Information
Pebbles of Perception
Simple Rules
The Laws of Thermodynamics
The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership
Thinking with Type
The Emotionally Intelligent Investor
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
In Praise of Slowness
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis
Maestro
The Art of  Scientific Investigation
Trump
101 Things I Learned in Engineering School
Primed to Perform
City of the Century
The Devil’s Financial Dictionary
The Back of the Napkin
Mindware
The Creative Society
Shortcut
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Filters Against Folly
Brave Enough
Letters to a Young Scientist
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
The Stopwatch Gang
Montaigne's Essays
Buffett
The Art of Stillness
The Three Marriages
The Power of Full Engagement
Walden
The Soul of the World
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