book-notes

Sharing notes from books and interesting things that I hope you find useful.

Code available on GitHub inspired by Michael Parker.

enjoy! Joaquin

Highly recommended

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
• Drive by Daniel Pink
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
• Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• How will you measure your life, Clayton M. Christensen
• Search inside yourself, Chade-Meng Tan
• If you are so smart why aren’t you happy, raj
• Once upon a cow, camilo cruz
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Marie Kondo
• [12_rules of life Jordan Peterson]
• Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
• David Rock. Your brain at work
• The-hard-thing-about-hard-things by Ben Horowitz
• Brian Tracy. Focal point
• Tony Robins. Awaken the giant within.
• Zig Ziglar. Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
• Napoleon Hill. Think and grow rich.
• Jack Canfield. The Success principles.
• John C. Maxwell. How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life.
• George Clason. The richest man in Babylon
• Ken Blanchard. The one minute manager.
• Robert Cialdini. Influence
• Shirzad Chamine. Positive intelligence
• Raj Raghunathan. If you are so smart, why aren’t you happy?
• They way of the superior man, David Deida
• Harvey Mackay. Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You’ll Ever Need
• Tom Rath. Eat, move, sleep
• Sam Harris, Waking up
• Daniel Pink, Drive
• Malcom Gladwell, Outliers
• Malcom Gladwell, Blink
• Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
• Brian Tracy, The power of self-esteem
• Daniel Goleman: Emotional Intelligence.
• Daniel Goleman: Social intelligence
• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, Gary Chapman
• The-time-paradox. Zimbargo
• Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity, Charles Duhigg
• principles: Life and work, Ray Dalio
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, Bill Burnet
• What color is your parachute?, Richard Bolles
• The_10_Pillars_Of_Wealth_by_Alex_Becker
• competing with unicorns
• surrounded by idiots
• know can do! ken blanchard
• no hard feelings

Highly recommended fiction

• The Physician by Noah Gordon
• Alexandros: Child of a Dream by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
• The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Never by Ken Follett

Spanish

• El arte de no amargarse la vida by Rafael San Andreau
• Las gafas de la felicidad, Rafael San Andreu

Incomplete Notes

Incomplete notes from books that I haven’t yet finished reading.

• Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen and Roger Fisher
• Talking to Strangers, Malcom Gladwell
• Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
• Stumbling on happiness, Daniel Gilbert

Haven’t read yet

• Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg
• An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
• APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki
• Authority by Nathan Barry
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith
• Chatter by Patrick King
• Choose Yourself by James Altucher
• Different by Youngme Moon
• Do More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld
• Don’t Make Me Think by Steven Krug
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
• Hooked by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover
• How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Peter Morville, Louis Rosenfeld
• Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
• Multipliers by Liz Wiseman
• Pragmatic Learning & Thinking by Andy Hunt
• Pro Git by Scott Chacon
• Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
• Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
• The Book on Writing by Paula LaRocque
• The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
• The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
• The Knack by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham
• The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
• The Non-Designer’s Design Book, 3rd Edition by Robin Williams
• The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
• To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink
• When by Daniel Pink
• Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark
• Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
• How Children Learn by John Holt
• How to Solve It by George Pólya
• Introducing Neuro-linguistic Programming by Joseph O’Connor and John Seymour
• The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier
• Why Didn’t They Teach Me This in School? by Cary Siegel

Other Notes

Notes from things that I’ve read or watched on the web:

• vimtutor
• Learn_markdown
• learn python
• programs that I use
• Eric Barker newsletter
• First Round Capital: The Review
• High Scalability
• Khan Academy finance and capital markets
• Leanpub Manual
• On being an effective tech lead

Programming books

• Python_Data_science_handbook_by_Jake_VanderPlas

Other

• Neat words: Words I’ve read and had to look up definitions for.
• Frameworks: Useful frameworks for my thinking and my work.