The Book In Three Or More Sentences: How Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby, now the largest online distributor of independent music in the world, started the company. How it became so big – though he didn’t want it to grow. How he later sold it for $22 million, and what are the lessons learned. The Core Idea: Instead of trying to build this huge business that will devour other companies alike, try to make it small. Don’t do […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Unlike the other business books, where the authors talk mostly about how cool it is to start a business, how to raise capital, and how important it is to carefully plan your next 5 years, in The Hard Things About The Hard Things you’ll find what to do when things go south. Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about the complications coming from running a business, especially in the tech industry, and paints a […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: The book explores the principles of epidemics. Or in other words, what kind of events happen prior to something becoming viral. Along with the other things, Malcolm Gladwell explains in details how the TV show Sesame Street conquered the children’s media when everyone else thought that it’s impossible; How the rate of rampant crimes in 80s NYC dropped in less than a decade; What’s the key to get people to change their behavior. […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Humans are creatures of habits. By analyzing your behavior you can pinpoint your bad habits and more particularly, the isolated actions that are holding you down. By doing the latter, you can cleanse the self-sabotaging behavior, replace it with such that acts for your interest, and finally thrive. Healthy habits are the cornerstone of a successful, happy life and what the author is sharing in The Power of Habit is surely something you’ll […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Our mind uses two different systems to handle and analyze the things happening around us: fast and slow. The first is quick in conclusions but can often be wrong. The second is slower but has a greater chance of finding the right solution. By constantly increasing your knowledge, you will aid your fast mind so it can make fewer mistakes and upgrade your slow one to act faster in distasteful moments were making […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Easily digestible, motivating, inspiring. Rework is a different type of business book. It’s different than all the other books out there about starting and running a business. Rework shows you a better, easier way to succeed in your market by explaining in plain English what you should do and what you should avoid doing. The Core Idea: The authors of the book, who are the founders of Basecamp 3, are sharing their own […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: An honest self-help book that’s totally different from anything you’ve ever read before. Mark Manson throws all advice our minds were fed all these years – positive thinking and follow your passion – in the trash and explains in detail what you should really do if you want to be happier and live a fulfilling life. His writing is harsh and even brutal at times – as you can see from the title […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Super Thinking is exactly what the title entails – a big book that lists a wide variety of mental models. What exactly are mental models? Set of frameworks, thinking scripts, that promise to radically reduce the time you need to make a decision. Gabriel Weinberg, who happens to be the CEO of DuckDuckGo, does a wonderful job explaining these frameworks. He adds context and real-life examples to make it easy for readers to […]

June 20, 2020 Good morning and welcome to Summer 2020. No idea what’s in store for us over the next three months, but…it’s gotta be better than the spring, right? Saturday means another edition of the New Normal, Morning Brew’s series that explores the pandemic’s long-term effects on various industries. This edition is all about consumer spending: What we’re buying, how we’re buying it, and why it matters. It’s a fun one—enjoy! MARKETS NASDAQ 9,946.12 + 0.03% S&P 3,097.74 – 0.56% […]

June 19, 2020 Good morning. Starting this year, Morning Brew will be commemorating Juneteenth as a paid company holiday. As you’ll read in the newsletter, we aren’t the only ones in the business world using June 19 as a moment to hit pause and reflect. Have a great day—see you here tomorrow morning. MARKETS NASDAQ 9,943.05 + 0.33% S&P 3,115.34 + 0.06% DJIA 26,080.10 – 0.15% GOLD 1,729.70 – 0.34% 10-YR 0.713% – 2.10 bps OIL 38.90 + 2.48% *As of […]