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Daily coffee order; used as a real-world example to illustrate inflation's impact on purchasing power
"I had been drinking the same coffee order from Starbucks. It is a venti decaf Americano, two pumps of sugar-free vanilla. From 2020 when I started using the app till today, I make the same exact order. My order every day today is $3.85. When I actually star..."
"I drink a lot of dark roast Starbucks. You know, the more they burn it, the better I like it"
Media
Learning about successful indie app and SaaS businesses to get inspired and understand what's possible
"I actually started getting into software just by watching Starter Story videos. I came across the video about Puff Count, that app made by Steven, and I was genuinely immediately hooked. I just started building my own apps the moment I watched that video. W..."
"You should check out Starter Story Build. Click that link in the description. You can get started. You can build and launch something very quickly."
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"I think it's called like Steve Jobs... in Exile, which I'd highly recommend. Really good book."
Understanding how to build products people actually need and how disruption works
"There's a great book out now called Steve Jobs in Exile, which I absolutely think is required reading if you're listening to this podcast. Kane wrote the book, but it's with Catmull, who was at Pixar, and with Dan Lewin, who was Steve's super good friend an..."
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Thinking about shifting supply chain constraints
"I remember that in undergrad... I never thought this would be like a useful book that I read, but we read The Goal, and it turns out there's never one constraint, there's always just the latest constraint."
"Elon and I had shared this favorite book, The Goal, which is all about manufacturing process"
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Paired with Innovator's Dilemma to understand both the problem and solution of disruption for startups
"Everybody gives up — they never read The Solution because they're already 300 pages into The Dilemma and they're like, oh my god. So you want to read both the dilemma and the solution in tandem, back to back."
"The Bible in tech in my mind is Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solutions from Clayton Christensen. I think we you have to read that book and I'd recommend to people that read it every every few years."
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Understanding long-term investing, holding winners, and old-school gentlemanly business practices
"I just finished reading this book. It's essentially a biography published in 1966 on all the merchant bank families. It's called The Merchant Bankers. And one of my favorite quotes in the book is this guy bitching because they own like 20% of some company l..."
Understanding the principles and mindset of merchant banking, entrepreneurship, trust, and long-term thinking in business
"This is the second or third time I read the book. Never made an episode on it before. I bought a bunch of copies of this book and given them away to friends. Highly recommend reading the book. That is 425 books down, 10,000 to go."
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Understanding Henry Singleton's capital allocation philosophy and comparing his approach to Warren Buffett's
"That is an excerpt from one of the two books I'm going to talk to you about today. That book is The Outsiders, written by William Thorndike. I went through both books and pulled out all the highlights, removing anything that's not about how he approached hi..."
Understanding capital allocation and management from the perspective of exceptional managers
"Two of the most consequential books that I read that had the most influence on me in that area. The outsiders."
Media
Improving team discussions by assigning different thinking modes (optimist, devil's advocate, facts-only, etc.)
"There's this great book called Six Thinking Hats. I found this to be a very productive book. The white hat is focus on facts, the yellow hat is be optimistic, the black hat be devil's advocate. When you're having a discussion you're like, okay, if you were ..."
"The six thinking hats and effectively it is a way of looking at a problem by filtering only by thinking type. So for example, we're going to put on a yellow hat and look at this potential idea."
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Understanding how things become phenomena and what types of people a crew needs
"I was a fan of Malcolm and The Tipping Point was out. There's certain books that become like hood classics that kind of lend themselves to hustler mentality, and The Tipping Point told you how things go from this to fad to phenomenon, and the different peop..."
"My favorite book of all times, and I made it mandatory reading for my command staff when I took over as the chief. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell. One of my all-time favorite reads because it forces you to understand that no matter what your challenge ..."
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Entrepreneurial operating system used across XYPN, Advice Pay, Kitces.com, and FP Pathfinder
"Some folks out there these days will probably know the Gino Wickman name. He's the guy who wrote Traction and the whole EOS entrepreneurial operating system, which we use at XYPN and Advice Pay and Kitces and FP Pathfinder. I'm a very big EOS fan. So if any..."
"Traction's good. That's another good one that's non-financial related. I think that's a good one that people should read."
Media
"one thing that never goes out of style is 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly. You can read it for free at kk.org."
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Understanding business moats and competitive strategy
"Still read Hamilton Helmer and all that stuff still applies. Yes. Love this book. I feel like there's only five real business books in the world. Every other one is in the business of selling business books, and they're fake. And his is on my list of five."
Software
"We're like one of the few organizations of our size uses Agentforce. We unleashed Agentforce on all of our leads."
Software
"I don't need to ship it to myself. I can ship it directly to an Amazon warehouse and they will take it from there and ship it out to all of their other warehouses."
Media
Understanding American capitalism, business history, and how history rhymes with patterns of labor and capital tension
"There is an exceptional book that I've mentioned before called Americana which is a multi-year anthology and study of American capitalism. It is exceptional. I've probably read it three, four times and it's just an explainer of every single era and the key ..."
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Business travel — lounge access, hotel credits, TSA PreCheck
"Option two, I use a lot — this is Amex Platinum. There's a hefty yearly fee, but the benefits outweigh it if you use it properly. I like this card because we are always jet-setting on planes. If you use it for travel, this might be like access to lounges, h..."
Software
Assigning tasks to AI agents as coworkers; asynchronous agent coordination
"One of the things we've started experimenting with at Basecamp is that we put the agents inside of Basecamp, and we treat them as coworkers. We assign them tasks inside of Basecamp, so they will do work on a to-do in Basecamp, or they'll do work on a card. ..."
Software
Market research to identify fastest-selling business categories
"Go to BizBuySell, type in one state, you can do this, like Texas. Scrape everything. And then a week later to the minute, scrape everything in Texas on BizBuySell again and then subtract what sold."
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Finding businesses for sale in your local area
"Go to BizScout.com for free. Filter by your city. Just browse. Get comfortable with what's actually for sale. You'll be shocked. It's super fun to start."
Media
"I've got two CFAs on my team and two traders. So and they're in Bloomberg and like it's elevated past what me and Corey started"
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