This was a good week for learning.
I learnt about languishing from Adam Grant: How to stop languishing and start finding flow | TED
I learnt that
You can’t build a billion dollar despicable me startup
from Alexander Jarvis’ article Sole founders are bad which is linked from Microsoft’s official training on how to build a startup.I enjoyed the The Wisdom Tree which I found out about from a post by Eddie Cheng but I have referenced the original A Short Guide to Reading and Learning for Investors by Vishal Khandelwal over on Safal Niveshak.
I learnt what is a Zibaldone and as far as I am concerned anything that connects H.P. Lovecraft with 14th century Venice and Thomas Jefferson is good. Very good. How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr
I learnt that the EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors because backdoors violate human rights (!). The “confidentiality of communications is an essential element of the right to respect for private life and correspondence,” the ECHR’s ruling said. Thus, requiring messages to be decrypted by law enforcement “cannot be regarded as necessary in a democratic society.”
Reading, watching, listening
Interesting business stuff this week:
The Coaching Habit by M.B. Stanier (Amazon paid link: UK | US).
This is a terrible book: the binding is awful, pages are falling out, the paper quality is rubbish. The contents is good – a solid introduction to thinking like a coach in the workplace – so that’s something. Thank you Christine Kerr for the recommendation.
Interesting tech stuff this week:
- Why pandas feels clunky when coming from R by Rasmus Bååth who five years ago switched from R to python at work.
What I am reading now:
Value Proposition Design by Strategyzer. Re-reading this with the team. The book is ten year’s old and still be most practical, visual, and downright enjoyable guide to the subject I know.
Scaling People - Tactics for management and company building by Claire Hughes Johnson. Stripe Press.
Until next week: Travel well, whichever road you are on 👋.
