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"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steven Gary Blank http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
Me too. I am struggeling to get through it though.
I keep referring back to it. I think it would be good to read in parallel with a business partner.
Maverick - By Ricardo Semler of Semco. It's a must read book for every entrepreneur. I've read few business books, but this is one of those books I'll always recommend everyone with Founders at Work and Art of the Start. It's a real story of Semco with great business lessons.
Finishing "Atlas Shrugged". While ideas and the spirit of the book have aged only slightly, the way of writing seems way too pretentious for our times. But overall the book is interesting. From historic and ideological point of view.
The Art of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama
"The Great War for Civilisation" - Robert Fisk "Life on the Mississippi" - Mark Twain "3 Commando Brigade" - Ewen Southby-Tailyour "Anathem" - Neal Stephenson
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Ayn Rand was able to name so much of what I've felt growing up. While she may have used the literary technique of exaggeration to heighten the contrast between her philosophical views of moral vs. immoral, I don't think she took it "too far" as others are commenting. I think that's like saying Philip K. Dick took the ideas of technological advances and psychic ability too far in his story, "Minority Report", or like…
I took her meritocratic stance seriously until I heard her defend inherited wealth, which is ridiculously inconsistent.
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For a time, I considered this my bible. But it's too idealistic, and goes a long way on some fairly iffy assumptions. It's still compelling as hell, though.
Ayn Rand was a philosopher. And like most philosophers, she started out with some good ideas and over applied them to everything in life, which leads to some scary conclusions. My favorite Rand book was Anthem. It was short and therefore didn't have space to extrapolate Rand's ideas to their scary conclusion. I just finished reading Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. It is just as long and pompous as Atlas Shrugged, but…