2020 Wrap Up
2020 Wrap Up
My favorite books, podcasts, and media I’ve enjoyed in 2020.
Books & Articles
21 Lessons for the 21st Century- Yuval Noah Harari
Face to Face - The Art of Human Connection by Brian Grazer
Finding Time To Invest In Yourself - Naval
Competing Against Luck – Clayton Christensen
Why We Swing for The Fences – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
WSJ - A New Way for Stock Traders to Rebalance: Meditation
How to Respond to Covid-19 According to Bill Gates
John Hopkins Center for Health Security on COVID-19
Work From Home Company Playbook
Yuval Noah Harari: The World After The Coronavirus
Crunchbase: Lessons From 2008: How The Downturn Impacted Funding
The Vaccine Race Explained – Bill Gates
The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
Think Like a Monk - Jay Shetty
How To Think For Yourself by Paul Graham
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose
Podcasts
Why Boredom is Good For You – Yuval Noah Harari
Gimlet Academy – How to Build A Podcast
Striving vs Self Acceptance – Brene Brown and Tim Ferriss
The Orgins Podcast – Gail Collins
92Y Talks - Ezra Klein with Malcolm Gladwell
E0 All-In With Chamath Palihapitiya: COVID-19 Political, Economic, & Social Ramifications
Small Talk Should be Banned and 9 Questions to Ask Instead
Frank Sinatra’s Tea Break Monologue
Teaching Kindness Leads To Success
How to Read People and Make Winning Decisions
Matthew McConaughey on Success
Avoiding Co-Founder Legal Disputes
How I built This with Tony Hsieh
Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify — Habits, Systems and Mental Models for Top Performance
Media
Imagining our Future Through Tech, Life in 2030 – Frank Chen
Uppity: The Willy T Ribbs Story
Rich Kleiman & David Falk On The Evolution of Sport
F1 – Drive To Survive Season 2
Why We’re Not Ready for the Next Outbreak (2015)
Teacher Uses Song to Build Self Esteem
Warren Buffett’s 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting
Aaron Sorkin Breaks Down His Career
Walter Cronkite on the Home Office of The Future
Quotes
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Never Risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and done need.” – Warren Buffett
“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” -George Washington
“In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.” -Michael Jordan
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is. – Jack Welch
"Beware the quiet man. For while others speak he watches. And while others act he plans. And when they finally rest... he strikes" - Anonymous
“Done is better than perfect.”
“Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” - Blaise Pascal
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” - President John F Kennedy
“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” — Bruce Lee
Blog Posts Worth Revisiting
Covid – 19 Cut Through The Noise
Reduce Your Fixed Expenses
Democrats vs Republicans
Hardy Capital Mentioned in Forbes
The Single Most Important Document of Your Life
Other Interesting Links
Frank Sinatra’s Tea Break Monologue
Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee with Lions Mane