Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin

  [Business & Career] {#221} #BriefAudioBook - 2 November 2020

Lost and Founder

A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World

Rand Fishkin

17 min read

overview

Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley “wisdom” leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love. Fishkin pulls back the curtain on tech startup mythology, exposing the ups and downs of startup life that most CEOs would rather keep secret. His hard-won lessons are applicable to any kind of business environment. Up or down the chain of command, at both early-stage startups and mature companies, whether your trajectory is riding high or down in the dumps: this book can help solve your problems and make you feel less alone for having them. This is the definitive guide to funding startups. It reveals the risk of venture capitals and teaches ways to get your team members productive using blueprints from multi-billion dollar companies: Facebook, Google, Yelp and Uber.

[Business & Career] {#221} #BriefAudioBook - 2 November 2020

Lost Connections by Johann Hari

  [Health,Happiness] {#220} #BriefAudioBook - 1 November 2020

Lost Connections

Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

Johann Hari

19 min read

overview

What causes depression and anxiety? What is happening in your life? Is there anything hurting you that you might want to change? Johann Eduard Hari is a Swiss-English writer and journalist. Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes of depression and anxiety — and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin — all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.

[Health,Happiness] {#220} #BriefAudioBook - 1 November 2020

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant

  [Spirituality,Self-Growth] {#219} #BriefAudioBook - 31 October 2020

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

Kamal Ravikant

14 min read

overview

Do you have a truth that you need to live and share? Have you realized that you haven't been radiating self-love the way you give love to others? Do not fret. You’re in the right place. The author, who is the only non-black, non-woman, member of the Black Women’s writers’ group, shares what works and what doesn’t when it comes to loving yourself. This book, unlike other self-help books, features actual experiences of the author, and the practices are straightforward and relatable.

[Spirituality,Self-Growth] {#219} #BriefAudioBook - 31 October 2020

Made to Stick by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

  [Business & Career] {#218} #BriefAudioBook - 30 October 2020

Made to Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

15 min read

overview

“Made to Stick” by American academic and professor Chip Heath and his brother, bestselling author and professor, Dan Heath, is a greatly educational and insightful guide to not only getting your idea the much-needed acceptance it deserves but also to boost your confidence in taking your own story and rewriting it. This book is all you need to get on the right track with your ideas and see them through to fruition. An absolute page-turner, this is a great addition to any shelf

[Business & Career] {#218} #BriefAudioBook - 30 October 2020

Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Mark A. McDaniel, Henry L. Roediger III

  [Self-Growth] {#217} #BriefAudioBook - 29 October 2020

Make It Stick

The Science of Successful Learning

Peter C. Brown, Mark A. McDaniel, Henry L. Roediger III

16 min read

overview

Most of us see making conscious efforts to learn something as a waste of time and energy. We believe that good teaching should be creatively tailored to the various learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. “Make It Stick” exposes the subtle flaws at the core of these fashionable ideas. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors Peter Brown, Mark McDaniel, and Henry Roediger, offer highly effective approaches to becoming more productive learners. In this book, you will learn how you can improve your learning, and if you teach, how you can improve your teaching skills.

[Self-Growth] {#217} #BriefAudioBook - 29 October 2020

Make Time by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

  [Productivity] {#216} #BriefAudioBook - 28 October 2020

Make Time

How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

14 min read

overview

Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, “The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!” or got to work in the morning and thought, “Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what I’ll do.” Why? In a world where information refreshes endlessly, and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about. It is a must-read for anyone who has ever thought “If only there were more hours in the day.”

[Productivity] {#216} #BriefAudioBook - 28 October 2020

Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven

  [Self-Growth] {#215} #BriefAudioBook - 27 October 2020

Make Your Bed

Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

William H. McRaven

17 min read

overview

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, “What starts here changes the world,” he shared the principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments.

[Self-Growth] {#215} #BriefAudioBook - 27 October 2020

Manage Your Day-to-Day by 99U, Jocelyn K. Glei

  [Self-Growth] {#214} #BriefAudioBook - 26 October 2020

Manage Your Day-to-Day

Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

99U, Jocelyn K. Glei

13 min read

overview

Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven't accomplished the most important things on your agenda by the time you leave the office? With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, 99U's Manage Your Day-to-Day will equip you with pragmatic insights for using your time wisely and creating your best work. In this summary, you will learn how to build a rock-solid daily routine, field a constant barrage of messages, find focus amidst the chaos, and carve out the time you need to do the work that matters.

[Self-Growth] {#214} #BriefAudioBook - 26 October 2020

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

  [Happiness] {#213} #BriefAudioBook - 25 October 2020

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

13 min read

overview

This story is not just another account of a Nazi concentration camp inmate. It seeks to investigate the mental state of the prisoners and uses logotherapy to unravel the mysteries that abound in his mind and even in the minds of everyday people. Renowned psychiatrist and speaker, Viktor E. Frankl, puts more than “pen to paper” as he relays his personal experience to bring it closer to home to readers so they can understand the delicate details of camp life and the psychological effects, creating an instant relation through the shared experience.

[Happiness] {#213} #BriefAudioBook - 25 October 2020

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

  [Health,Happiness] {#212} #BriefAudioBook - 24 October 2020

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

17 min read

overview

Do you know someone feeling inadequate and frustrated? Or someone who is suffering from a serious personal crisis or mental illness, such as divorce or depression? What advice would you give them? Perhaps you might say the words that form the title of this bite-sized book: “Maybe You Should Talk To Someone”. And that “someone,” in this case, would be a therapist. In this bite-sized book, the author, Lori Gottlieb examines the truths and lies we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope, and change. Lori Gottlieb is a bestselling American author and famous psychotherapist who has written for several publications including the New York Times, Slate, Elle, etc. She is most famous for her weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column for The Atlantic, where she is also a contributing editor. The book“Maybe You Should Talk To Someone...” has been acquired by ABC to be developed into a series.

[Health,Happiness] {#212} #BriefAudioBook - 24 October 2020