The Coronavirus WFH Reading List - 100 of the best
I shared a list of items from my to-read bookmarks folder on Twitter recently. If you are looking for things to read/watch during the next few weeks (while you are working from home hopefully), you might find it useful
Copy pasting the thread here with minor edits
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1/ If you are someone like me who is interested in ‘business things’, but can’t imagine going to a B School, this is a must read
Had read a few of these but not all
2/ When I started my career I was super confused between choosing Product and Growth roles. I used to read extensively on both, and Growthhackers was a must read site for me
Need to catch up on the new studies here: Growth Studies
3/ Apart from the growth studies, you might want to read the most popular posts in this site: Growth Hackers
4/ While doing this course on designing experiments, I got interested in Stats
So I started reading posts from here: Statttrek
Might be worth doing both
I recommended the course here: Online courses to do as a PM
5/ A bunch of documentaries I never found time to watch: 25 documentaries
6/ If you are someone who uses Reddit, you can explore new sub reddit recommendations here
7/ Ask GH: What books should I read to help build a solid foundation for Growth Hacking?
Books to read if you want to understand Growth more
8/ Foundation interviews by Kevin Rose (from more than a decade ago): Foundation 01 // Jack Dorsey
11/ Tech talks recommendations from HN
12/ A few courses on writing I wanted to take (but have not been able to because of being lazy or other priorities)
Purdue OWL // Purdue Writing Lab
13/ Copywriting resources from NNG
14/ How Jason Fried writes a blogpost
17/ KV Summit videos
18/ Every video on Harrison Metal’s Vimeo
19/ Videos from the Interaction 18 conference
20/ Language-agnostic programming books you should read
21/ Sam Altman - Startup Investor School
22/ The best MOOCs taken by HN people
23/ The Best Books to Understand Complex Systems
24/ Arabic Books to Read ‘Before You Die’
25/ Top 200 VC (Venture Capital) articles written on medium.com
26/ The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing
27/ Amazon’s shareholder letters
28/ Coding/Writing/Working background listening recommendations
29/ Patrick’s Investor Curriculum
30/ Santa Fe Institute’s Introduction to Complexity
32/ Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age
33/ TED Talks related to critical thinking
34/ Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer, Jr.
35/ RATIONALITY: A-Z
36/ 25 Best Travel Movies Of All Time (Films That Will Inspire You To Travel)
37/ Machine Learning for Product Managers
38/ Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
39/ Mega thread on Eric Weinstein’s insights
40/ Statistical Tests — When to use Which ?
41/ Blogs of a few people I want to read
Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings
43/ 67 Books from the HBS Course Catalog
44/ History of the internet and its protocols
45/ Reboot’s Self-Guided Course Resources
46/ Takeaways from Netflix’s Personalization Workshop 2018
47/ How to Get Ideas and How to Measure - Stewart Butterfield & Adam D’Angelo
48/ A HISTORY OF COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT AND DIGITAL CULTURE BY JIMMY MAHER
49/ Aswath Damodaran’s Valuation course
I am currently doing this course for undergrads, Spring 2020
50/ A Template for Understanding How the Economic Machine Works and How it is Reflected Now by Ray Dalio
51/ Paper on the Psychology of Security by Bruce Schneier
52/ Katie Swindler - Animation in UX — The subconscious influence of motion
53/ Ryan Singer, “Designing with Forces: How to Apply Christopher Alexander in Everyday Work”
54/ Everything is a Remix Remastered
55/ Jan Willem Nijman - Vlambeer - “The art of screenshake”
56/ Secrets of Game Feel and Juice
57/ Humble Dollar’s financial guide
58/ Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer
60/ History of Philosophy visualised
61/ Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge
62/ “Early Days” Interviews from World-Class Leaders
63/ Sarah Lacy’s fireside chat
64/ Tools & Craft: Andy Hertzfeld
65/ INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS THINKING
67/ Work Out With Naomi Campbell
68/ Understanding Abundance, part 1: It’s Caused by Consumers
70/ 10 books on how to effectively manage a remote team
71/ Gibson Biddle’s talks and posts
72/ Essays on game design theory, art and the business of design
73/ Collection of writing by John Huber that describes Saber Capital’s investment approach and ideas
76/ Introduction to Corporate Finance
77/ Finance Theory I
78/ A year of reading the world
79/ a16z’s holiday reading list
80/ 15 web design books of 2019 that you should read
81/ Kyle Bass: “China: The Most Reckless Financial Experiment In History”
82/ 2012 Mavericks Lecture: John Malone
83/ The Essential Clayton Christensen Articles
84/ Peter Thiel on “The Portal”
86/ All Tonguz’ S1 analysis posts
88/ Insights on working with / for current / former management consultants
89/ David Perrell’s Writing Syllabus
90/ Jobs to be Done: from Doubter to Believer
92/ Decision Theory
94/ Summary of Poor Charlie’s Almanack
95/ About what makes us human - Robert Sapolsky
96/ The 100 best books of the 21st century
97/ Product Growth with Gustaf Alströmer
99/ Building Your Startup Financial Model
100/ Read old posts from HN by changing date filter
I think 100 is a good number to end this thread
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