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  • Notes - The 2 Hour Cocktail Party (February 17, 2025)

    Excerpts from "The 2 Hour Cocktail Party" by Nick Gray

  • Notes - Hacking Growth (February 4, 2025)

    Excerpts from "Hacking Growth" by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown

  • Notes - Startup Boards (December 11, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Startup Boards" by Brad Feld & Mahendra Ramsinghani

  • Notes - The Startup Community Way (December 10, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Startup Community Way" by Brad Feld & Ian Hathaway

  • Notes - Die with Zero (December 9, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Die with Zero" by Bill Perkins

  • Notes - The Mars Family - M&M Mars Candy Makers (December 8, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Mars Family - M&M Mars Candy Makers" by Joanne Mattern

  • Notes - The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (November 27, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by John Gottman & Nan Silver

  • Notes - Business and Religion - The Intersection of Faith and Finance (November 23, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Business and Religion - The Intersection of Faith and Finance" by Matthew C. Godfrey & Michael Hubbard MacKay

  • Notes - Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts (November 22, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts" by Silk and Lintott

  • Notes - The Power of Leveraging the Charitable Remainder Trust (November 21, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Power of Leveraging the Charitable Remainder Trust" by Daniel Nigito

  • Notes - Zondervan 2020 Church and Nonprofit Tax and Financial Guide (November 20, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Zondervan 2020 Church and Nonprofit Tax and Financial Guide" by Dan Busby & Michael Martin

  • Notes - Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (November 19, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Random Reminiscences of Men and Events" by John D. Rockefeller

  • Notes - Founders Profile - Elon Musk (November 18, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Founders Profile - Elon Musk" by David Senra

  • Notes - Conservancy - The Land Trust Movement in America (November 17, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Conservancy - The Land Trust Movement in America" by Richard Brewer

  • Notes - 7 Human Hijacks (November 6, 2024)

    Excerpts from "7 Human Hijacks" by Craig Clemens (MFM pod)

  • Notes - Outlive (November 5, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Outlive" by Peter Attia

  • Notes - Traction (October 27, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares

  • Notes - 7 Powers (October 26, 2024)

    Excerpts from "7 Powers" by Hamilton Helmer

  • Notes - Private Equity Deals (October 25, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Private Equity Deals" by Ted Seides

  • Notes - Capital Allocators (October 24, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Capital Allocators" by Ted Seides

  • Notes - Angel - How to Invest in Technology Startups (October 23, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Angel - How to Invest in Technology Startups" by Jason Calacanis

  • Notes - Lee Kuan Yew - The Grand Master (October 22, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Lee Kuan Yew - The Grand Master" by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill

  • Notes - Venture Deals (October 21, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Venture Deals" from Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

  • Notes - Americana - A 400-Year History of American Capitalism (October 20, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Americana - A 400-Year History of American Capitalism" from Bhu Srinivasan

  • Notes - The Man Who Solved the Market (October 19, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Man Who Solved the Market" from Gregory Zuckerman

  • Notes - Family Business (October 18, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Family Business" from Harvard Business Review

  • Notes - The Polyester Prince (October 17, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Polyester Prince" from Dhirubhai Ambani

  • Notes - How to Know a Person (October 16, 2024)

    Excerpts from "How to Know a Person" from David Brooks

  • Notes - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (October 15, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant" from Naval Ravikant

  • Notes - Lessons of History (October 14, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Lessons of History" from Will Durant

  • Notes - How Music Works (October 13, 2024)

    Excerpts from "How Music Works" from David Byrne

  • Notes - Crossing the Chasm (October 12, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey A. Moore

  • Notes - Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises (October 11, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises" by Ray Dalio

  • Notes - The Rise of Carry (October 10, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Rise of Carry" by Tim Lee, Jamie Lee, and Kevin Coldiron

  • Notes - Pricing Money (October 9, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Pricing Money" from JD Wiseman

  • Notes - Understanding Semiconductors - A Technical Guide for Non-Technical People (October 8, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Understanding Semiconductors - A Technical Guide for Non-Technical People" from Corey Richard

  • Notes - The Family Firm (October 7, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Family Firm" from Emily Oster

  • Notes - Founding Sales (September 19, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Founding Sales" from Peter R. Kazanjy

  • Notes - How to Succeed at Mr. Beast Production (September 18, 2024)

    Excerpts from "How to Succeed at Mr. Beast Production" from Mr. Beast

  • Notes - Scaling People Tactics for Management and Company Building (September 17, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Scaling People Tactics for Management and Company Building" from Claire Hughes Johnson

  • Notes - Dirt Rich (September 16, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Dirt Rich" from Mark Podolsky

  • Notes - Land Investors Playbook (September 15, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Land Investors Playbook" from Travis King

  • Notes - Tools of Titans (September 1, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Tools of Titans" by Timothy Ferriss

  • Notes - Principles (August 31, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Principles" by Ray Dalio

  • Notes - The Real Estate Investors Tax Strategy Guide (July 8, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Real Estate Investors Tax Strategy Guide" from TYLER D. KRAEMER and TAMMY H. KRAEMER

  • Notes - J.K. Lassers Guide to Self-Employment Taxes, Tips, and Money-Saving Strategies for Schedule C Filers. (July 7, 2024)

    Excerpts from "J.K. Lassers Guide to Self-Employment Taxes, Tips, and Money-Saving Strategies for Schedule C Filers." from Barbara Weltman

  • Notes - The Wall Street Journal Complete Estate-Planning Guidebook (July 6, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Wall Street Journal Complete Estate-Planning Guidebook" from Rachel Emma Silverman

  • Notes - Buy Back Your Time (July 5, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Buy Back Your Time" from Dan Martell

  • Notes - The Network State (July 4, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Network State" from Balaji Srinivasan

  • Notes - Atomic Habits (July 3, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Atomic Habits" from James Clear

  • Notes - Big Leap (July 2, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Big Leap" from Gay Hendricks

  • Notes - SPIN Selling (May 25, 2024)

    Excerpts from "SPIN Selling" by Neil Rackham

  • Notes - The Hard Thing about Hard Things (May 24, 2024)

    Excerpts from "The Hard Thing about Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz

  • Notes - Expecting Better (May 23, 2024)

    Excerpts from "Expecting Better" by Emily Oster

  • Notes - Talk Like Ted (July 8, 2022)

    Excerpts from "Talk Like Ted" from Carmine Gallo

  • Notes - Working Backwards (March 12, 2022)

    Excerpts from "Working Backwards" by Colin Brayer & Bill Carr

  • Notes - The Relationship Cure (November 17, 2021)

    Excerpts from "The Relationship Cure" from John Gottman

  • Notes - The Psychology of Money (July 17, 2021)

    Excerpts from "The Psychology of Money"

  • Notes - Attention Factory (June 20, 2021)

    Excerpts from "Attention Factory - The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance"

  • On Value Investing in Li Lu's New Book 《文明、现代化、价值投资与中国》 (August 27, 2020)

    Second part of the book review for Li Lu's "Civilization, Modernization, Value Investing, and China"

  • On Civilization and China in Li Lu’s New Book 《文明、现代化、价值投资与中国》 (July 21, 2020)

    First part of the book review for Li Lu's "Civilization, Modernization, Value Investing, and China"

  • 《文明、现代化、价值投资与中国》(李录) 摘要 (June 19, 2020)

    Excerpts from Li Lu's new book "Civilization, Modernization, Value Investing, and China"

  • Notes - Poor Charlie's Alamanack (March 1, 2020)

    Excerpts from "Poor Charlie's Alamanack"

  • Notes - Zero to One (February 1, 2020)

    Excerpts from Peter Thiel's "Zero to One"

  • Notes - One Minute Manager (January 17, 2019)

    Excerpts from "One Minute Manager"

  • Institutional Custody in the Crypto World (May 22, 2018)

    Thoughts on cryptocurrency custody, zero knowledge, and corporate internal security threats

  • The government should take a field trip to Silicon Valley instead (May 16, 2017)

    Thoughts about government contracting and USDS under Obama's White House

  • Fundraising (May 16, 2017)

    Thoughts on fundraising for startups

  • Angel Investing (May 12, 2017)

    Thoughts on angel investing in technology startups

  • Takeaways from Nassim Talib's Anti-fragile (February 12, 2016)

    A few Takeaways from the book "Anti-fragile"

  • From Outsourcing Your Life to Full Automation (October 21, 2015)

    Thoughts about freeing up your life with computer programs after reading Tim Ferriss' "Four Hour Work Week"