This is a list of content that I handpick at the end of every month (i.e. personal bookmark list). It includes books, podcasts, articles, videos, quotes, X (Twitter) threads, among other things.
May 2024
April 2024
- 🎧 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- 🎧 Consumer Social, Marketplaces, and Becoming a Better Investor with James Currier
March 2024
- 🎧 Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups – Lenny
- 🎧 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant) – Founders
February 2024
- 🎧 Jay Z’s Autobiography – Founders
- 📚 Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
- Advice to my younger self: Networking is dead – Sahil Bloom
January 2024
- 🐦 Worst trends in 16 years – A reply to Chamath
- 🎧 Christian Dior – Founders
- 💬 “Mental trap: We (humans) tend to focus on the average/typical outcome (not on outliers), which means that we will likely not be prepared for the next Black Swan (i.e. unexpected event).” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
December 2023
- 🎧 Pejman Nozad of Pear – Venture Unlocked
- 🎧 Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus – Nir Eyal
- 📄 What Will Happen In 2024 – Fred Wilson
- 📄 Emerging VC sectors on Dealroom.co
November 2023
- 🐦 The most useful razors and rules
- 📺 Should You Focus on Growth or Profit?
- 🖼️ The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy
October 2023
September 2023
- 🎧 The Biggest Issue with Product-Market Fit
- 🐦 The Pyramid of Learning
- 📺 The Latest 2023 Napkin Reveal
August 2023
- 🎧 The art of raising from LPs in an economic downturn with Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures
- 🐦 Think like a farmer
- 🐦 Some resisting forces to good decisions making
July 2023
- 📄 13 Biases that influence your Investment Decisions
- 🎧 How to do great work – Paul Graham
- 📺 The Laws of Human Nature – Robert Greene
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
- 📄 The seven deadly sins
- 📔 Aristotle – Rhetoric
- 💬 “Men are guided by nothing else than self-interest.” – Napoleon
March 2023
- 🎧 I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- 📄 Your guide to AI: April 2023
- 🐦 Twitter Thread on GPT-4 (use cases)
February 2023
- 🎧 Doug Leone – Lessons from a Titan
- 🐦 Special tweet from Said A. Haschemi
- 📄 A quoi s’attendre en 2023 dans la EdTech? (Self-promotion! 😬)
January 2023
- 📄 Brighteye Edtech Funding Report 2023
- 📺 The Innovation Stack – Jim McKelvey
- 🎧 Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger speaking directly to you – Founders
December 2022
November 2022
- 📄 Loss ratios in VC – Talia Golderg
- 🧵 Harvard Study of Adult Development began tracking the lives of 268 Harvard sophomores
October 2022
September 2022
- 📺 Building relationships – Chris Fralic
- 📄 Questions VCs ask founders
- 🎧 Interview: Dr. Emily Anhalt on the psychology of entrepreneurship
August 2022
- 🎧 Insights from Dr. Andrew Huberman, Greg McKeown, Jocko Willink, Brené Brown, and Naval Ravikant – Tim Ferriss
- 📄 Finding power: How To Do Market Analysis
- 📄 A theory of human motivation
- 📄 “Leave everything better than you found it.”
July 2022
- 🧵 Learn McKinsey’s simple framework below
- 📄 Growing Older, Better – Alive Ventures
- 📄 The Partnership – Fred Wilson
June 2022
- 🎧 Farnam Street Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- 📄 Understand Venture Capital with 12 necessary infographics
May 2022
- 📄 Union Square Ventures: The Thinkers
- 🎧 All-In – Episode 78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans
April 2022
- 📔 “Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored.” – Marcus Aurelius
- 📚 The Cold Start Problem – Andrew Chen
- 🎧 VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
March 2022
- 🎧 How to Get Rich Building Boring Businesses with Codie Sanchez
- 🧵 How does Seed stage fund math work? – Henri Pierre-Jacques
- 📄 Should you take small checks from deep pockets? – Chris Janz
February 2022
- 🎧 Union Square Ventures’ Rebecca Kaden on their theme based investing approach, fund sizing for USV
- 📄 11 Trends to Follow in 2022
January 2022
- 📄 The Hype Subsidy – Why Early Hype is Dangerous in Consumer Social
- 📄 Lessons from 140+ angel investments
December 2021
- 📚 What I talk about when I talk about running – Haruki Murakami
- 🎧 Lux’s Capital co-founder Peter Hebert – Venture Unlocked
- 📄 What is going to happen in 2022 – Fred Wilson
October/November 2021
- 📄 Building and Running a DAO: Why Governance Matters
- 📄 Tiger Global: How to Win
- 🎧 Robert Cialdini: The Principles of Persuasion
- 📚L’Esprit du corps – Etienne Klein
September 2021
- 🎧 Casey Winters’ Interview with Harry Stebbings
- 🎧 Greatest Hits: Reid Hoffman and Chamath Palihapitiya on Angel Investing and The Future of Venture
- 📄 The Changing Venture Landscape – Mark Suster
August 2021
- 🎧 Mike Maples, Jr. – A Playbook for Startups
- 📺 12 (Stoic) Questions
- 📄 The Metrics You Need To Raise A Series A – Initialized
July 2021
- 📄 In online ed content is no longer king: cohorts are – Wes Kao
- 🎧 The Philosopher-Entrepreneur – Reid Hoffman
- 🎧Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract – James Curier
June 2021
- 📄 Choosing Your North Star Metric – Lenny Rachitsky
- 🎧 Optimising Investment decision-making – Mark Mullen
- What is Mimetic Theory? – Garry Tan & Luke Burgis
May 2021
- 📄 How to Think For Yourself – Paul Graham
- 📄 How Philosophers Think – David Perell
- 📄 Top VC Firms Don’t Outperform the Broader Market at Seed
April 2021
- 📄 Top VC Firms Don’t Outperform the Broader market at Seed – AngelList
- 📄 Fab Fridays Issue 52: The Learning Style Myth
- 📺 The Foundations of Star Wars
March 2021
- 🎧 The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life with Luke Burgis
- 📄 On Deck Investment Memo (Series A)
- 📄 The Great Unbundling – Ben Evans
February 2021
- 🎧 Pedro Winter – Masterclass on Majelan (in French)
- 🎧 Michael Eisenberg – Aleph
- 📚 Nature – Ralph Aldo Emerson
January 2021
- 🎧 The DoorDash memo – Alfred Lin (Sequoia)
- 📚 The story of philosophy – Will Durant
- 📄 The non-obvious guide to fundraising – NFX
December 2020
- 🎧 Hacking Communities with Laís de Oliveira
- 📚 Principle for success (illustrated) – Ray Dalio
- 📄 What Happened in 2020 – Fred Wilson
November 2020
- 📄 Collectives in the Creative and Business Worlds
- 🎧 All Things Communities with Jacob Peters – Ventures Stories
- 🛠 Side Hustle Stack
October 2020
- 📺 The Social Dilemma
- 📄 Britannica -> Encarta -> Wikipedia – Gonz Sanchez
- 📚 Meditations: What is a human being? – René Descartes
- 🎧 Roelof Botha (Sequoia) – The Twenty Minutes VC
September 2020
- 📄 How Calm Won Wellness
- 📚 Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- 🎧 What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It
August 2020
- 📚 Mimetic Theory – René Girard
- 🎧 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- 📄 What comes after Zoom? – Ben Evans
July 2020
- 📺 Growth for startups – Gustaf Alströmer YC
- 📄 The Adjacent User Theory – Bangaly Kaba (Andrew Chen’s website)
- 📚 How Innovation Works – Matt Ridley
June 2020
- 🎧 How to angel invest (Part 1, Part 2)
- 📚 Good Economics for Hard Times – Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- 📚 Mental Models by Farnam Street
May 2020
- 🎧 Are VCs Still “Open For Business”, How VCs Attitude To Risk Has Changed
- 📚 7 Powers – The Fondations of Business Strategy – Hamilton Helmet
- 📺 The Last Dance
April 2020