Conor Dewey
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What I know and how I think are heavily influenced by the books and blog posts below.
Self-Improvement
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
Principles: Life and Work
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
I'm A Very Slow Thinker
I've Never Had a Goal
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance
Career
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
How to Be Successful
How to Do What You Love
A Career Cold Start Algorithm
Marc Andreessen's Guide to Career Planning
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
How to Think About Your Career
Business
The Lean Startup
Zero to One: Notes on Startups
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space
Aggregation Theory
Invisible Asymptotes
Strategy Letter V
How to Succeed in Business by Bundling and Unbundling
How to Build a Growth Team
Indispensable Growth Frameworks from My Years at Facebook
5 Ways to Build a $100 Million Business
Product
The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers
12 Things About Product-Market Fit
Building Products
Let's Reconsider Our Users
The Choke Points
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product-Market Fit
Education
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger
A Dozen Things I've Learned from Charlie Munger
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual
I Dropped Out to Create My Own Data Science Master's
Writing
On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Find Your Rat People
The War of Art
Chuck Close on Creativity and Work Ethic
Startups
1,000 True Fans
How to Get Startup Ideas
What We Look for in Founders
The Value of Ideas
Technology
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Trustworthy Data Analysis
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley