Startup books and podcasts: making the most of a longer commute
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#2I posted this question on Indie Hackers earlier this week and got some really great podcast recommendations: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/which-podcasts-do-you-rec...
Enjoying the "Startups for the rest of us" podcast so far (http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/)
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#3I posted this question on Indie Hackers earlier this week and got some really great podcast recommendations: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/which-podcasts-do-you-rec... Enjoying the "Startups for the rest of us" podcast so far ( http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ )
Startups for the Rest of Us is one of my favorite as well. Lots of good tactical advice on there. If you find yourself looking for something that is more inspiration (at least in the early stages of your entrepreneurial journey) I highly recommend Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series:
This was one of my talks that covers dropping out of college, a funny story about trying to figure our pricing, as well as goes over transitioning a business from charging for a product to charging for a service based on value:
https://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcast/the-passion-and-perseve...
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#4I posted this question on Indie Hackers earlier this week and got some really great podcast recommendations: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/which-podcasts-do-you-rec... Enjoying the "Startups for the rest of us" podcast so far ( http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/ )
Thank you, I always find listening to startup podcasts remarkably inspiring, even though I'm not sure whether or not I want to work on one yet. The "you don't need to be perfect, but you do need to care" message a lot of them share is applicable to a lot of things I work on.
Anecdote: I was working at a restaurant this past summer and was cleaning up at the end of the night while listening to the AirBnB episode of Masters of Scale with headphones. When they brought up the presidential cereal boxes I laughed, and one of the waitresses who I had been hitting it off with recently asked what I was listening to. I said a podcast about AirBnB. She looked at me funny and walked away. Smooth. I guess not everyone shares the same enthusiasm.
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#5I'm a big fan of pretty much all of the content in the Heavybit library. Heavybit is primarily focused on developer products, but a ton of the content applies to anyone building a SaaS product or startups in general - https://www.heavybit.com/library/
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#6Another thing to consider is listening to lectures in other fields. I liked to listen to astronomy, physics, astrophysics, etc lectures when I had a long commute.
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#7Thank you so much for this.
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#8Here's a collection of my top audiobooks/podcasts that I think HN readers will love.
This is the best stuff I have discovered over the past 3–4 years, and I’m sure you guys will enjoy each of these books, so if you haven’t read some of them yet — I highly recommend you to check them out.
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Excellent audiobooks:
- Rework https://www.audible.com/pd/Rework-Audiobook/B0036FLXLQ
- Creativity, Inc https://www.audible.com/pd/Creativity-Inc-Part-1-Overcoming-...
- The Martian https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Martian-Part-1-Audiobook/B00B...
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Hard-Thing-About-Hard-Things-...
- Zero to One https://www.audible.com/pd/Zero-to-One-Notes-on-Startups-or-...
- On Intelligence https://www.audible.com/pd/B002V8LKTE
- The Design of Everyday Things https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Design-of-Everyday-Things-Aud...
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! https://www.audible.com/pd/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-Au...
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow https://www.audible.com/pd/Homo-Deus-Part-1-A-Brief-History-...
- Atlas Shrugged https://www.audible.com/pd/Atlas-Shrugged-Part-1-Audiobook/B...
- Mapping Innovation https://www.audible.com/pd/Mapping-Innovation-A-Playbook-for...
- Ghost in the Wires https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Art-of-Invisibility-The-World...
- Actionable Gamification https://www.audible.com/pd/Actionable-Gamification-Part-1-Be...
- Algorithms to Live By https://www.audible.com/pd/Algorithms-to-Live-By-The-Compute...
- Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups https://www.audible.com/pd/Angel-How-to-Invest-in-Technology...
- Steve Wozniak autobiography https://www.audible.com/pd/iWoz-Part-1-How-I-Invented-the-Pe...
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth https://www.audible.com/pd/Traction-How-Any-Startup-Can-Achi...
- Mastery https://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/Mastery-Audiob...
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Excellent podcasts:
- YCombinator: https://soundcloud.com/akharris
- Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast
- Syntax (React and WebDev) https://syntax.fm/
- Rationally Writing http://alexanderwales.com/rationally-writing/
- Audio version of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality http://www.hpmorpodcast.com/
- Audio version of Rationality: From AI to Zombies https://from-ai-to-zombies.eu/
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#9I really enjoy audiobooks. A great option if you drive.
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#10I have the privilege of working at a beautiful University campus and being able to get there by bicycle. In the 45 minutes it takes for me to complete the 7 miles of the bicycle lane along the Pinheiros river I like to hear audiobooks and podcasts.
Some of the things I've heard lately:
- Startups for the rest of us: http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
- Rework (37 signals): https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Rework-Audiobook/B0036FL...
- Algorithms to live by: https://www.audible.com/pd/Business/Algorithms-to-Live-By-Au...
NONE OF THE ABOVE ARE AFFILIATE LINKS (for the trigger-happy jerks among us).