Books Recommended by Bill Earner
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In Bill Earner’s words:
My favorites [novels] are 100 Years of Solitude, All the King's Men, The Last Samurai, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
11 books recommended by Bill Earner
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One by Peter Thiel to understand power laws and why they apply to startups and startup investing.
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen in order to understand what disruptive innovation really means.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile by Nassim Taleb to understand the underlying dynamics that successful startups exploit.
Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business
It's a short but deep book about John Boyd and his strategies, the most famous of which is the OODA loop.
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio
Four Pillars has a good methodology for thinking about how to save and invest personally so definitely useful.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
My favorite book is The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It's a book that covers a vast range of topics over a fifty year period. It talks about the scientific advances that led to the bomb, the personalities that made those advances,… Read the full quote
My favorite book is The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It's a book that covers a vast range of topics over a fifty year period. It talks about the scientific advances that led to the bomb, the personalities that made those advances, and at the same time covers the political choices and escalation of violence over the course of the first half of the 20th Century that paint the use of the atomic bomb on Japan as an almost inevitable conclusion of that escalation. The prose is as incredible as the story. It's really a treat to rea
The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
by Steve Blank, Bob Dorf
The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank is a more full on version of the Lean Startup and is a real how to manual for customer development
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