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Comment on A Single Word Summary of 188 Books on Entrepreneurship by Montag

Great! Thank you.

Comment on A Single Word Summary of 188 Books on Entrepreneurship by Taylor Pearson

Hey Montag,

I have a recommended reading list here – http://taylorpearson.me/best-books-entrepreneurs/

Comment on A Single Word Summary of 188 Books on Entrepreneurship by Montag

Hi Taylor, my search for more reading material brought me to this page but I was bummed out when I didn’t see a list included : (

I was wondering if you have this list of these books anywhere?

Comment on The Work: What a Philosophy Professor and Strength Coach Can Teach Us About Our Careers by Casey Ames

Very true. It’s less of a process (like the other steps) and more of a skill to be developed. Unless you have someone over your shoulder who knows, telling you exactly what to do next, you can’t really figure out what The Work is until you start doing work and learning from that.

Comment on The Work: What a Philosophy Professor and Strength Coach Can Teach Us About Our Careers by Taylor Pearson

Wow.

That is insightful. I think you just mapped out a product for me….

In regards to point 3, I vacillate on this. I think to some extent teaching someone to do “The Work” is sort of like teaching someone to become enlightened. It is by it’s very nature not something which can be taught directly but must be explored as an individual in many different ways. I think I talk about 1,2,3,5 because those all seem to help facilitate that self-exploration.

I do think what Seth is doing with the Alt...

Comment on The Work: What a Philosophy Professor and Strength Coach Can Teach Us About Our Careers by Casey Ames

I’m starting to see a process emerge from your work for getting businesses started.

1) Market / Product / Founder Fit

2.A) Anti-fragile planning (for within that market)

2.B) Find your hedgehog concept (Finding the work only you can do)
Not that this can be found like finding your lost keys, but should always be consistently evaluated and worked on. More like chipping away at marble to get a sculpture

3) Figure out the high ROI work (aka “The Work”)*

4) Do “The Work” inside the right boxes...

Comment on Illegible Currency Arbitrage: How to Optimize for What Matters, Not What You Can Measure by Taylor Pearson

Woah! Thanks! Will sort it out

Comment on Illegible Currency Arbitrage: How to Optimize for What Matters, Not What You Can Measure by Josh

Looks like when you edited your site some of the formatting got messed up.

Comment on The Work: What a Philosophy Professor and Strength Coach Can Teach Us About Our Careers by lion

Well I’d argue that training for a marathon – with the marathon as the ends itself – would be work. Training for a marathon as a means of ‘shipping’ something in order to get closer to a 4 minute mile would be The Work.

Anyway this post is really what I needed to read right now.
I’m applying for that internship. I’ve been rushing to make myself more qualified – I remember when I was applying for your job offer I had a word file, correcting your typos – I realize I may be working at a local ma...

Comment on The Work: What a Philosophy Professor and Strength Coach Can Teach Us About Our Careers by Taylor Pearson

Thanks Royce