Books

I do a mix of paper, kindle, and audiobooks. 

I think I probably spent an average of 25 hours per week reading solo throughout 2024. 

I’d love talking about any of these if you see one you like on the list. I also might try to review them one by one in 2025 if it seems like there’s appetite for that here.

Day one, review one: The Geek Way

It’s well articulated, it’s by an industry-adjacent person, and it’s pro tech. 

But it’s not going to surprise anyone already steeped in startup culture. 

It advises a four prong recipe for building a successful company culture:

- make data driven decisions 
- promote agency/ownership
- move fast
- be super open

If you’re looking at that and going “hell yeah” then it’s safe to skip this one. 

But it’d be a good handbook for teaching newcomers and outsiders. And it’d make a great passive aggressive birthday gift for a cofounder who thinks his “Steve Jobs level product intuition” trumps your “AB testing data”

Four stars for its type, a solid 101 on healthy tech company culture