2021 Wrap Up
Here are links to my favorite books, media, and podcasts from 2021. Want to know what I’m reading, writing, and listening to on a bi-weekly basis? Subscribe to my newsletter here.
Books & Articles
The Power of Amazon and Jeff Bezos
How Facebook Bought Instagram in 2 Weeks
Where Have All the Houses Gone?
Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO, Death Entourage
The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2021
Pension Funds Are Buying Homes
Richer, Wiser, Happier-William Green
What We’ve Lost in Rejecting the Sabbath
Venture Capital Finds a New Bet: Black Entrepreneurs
Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines Against the Delta Variant
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Even Your Allergist Is Now Investing in Start-Ups
The Facebook Files: A WSJ Investigation
Jack Reacher, Better off Dead by Lee Child
Podcasts
We Study Billionaires: Disrupting Payments with Bitcoin
Michael Phelps and Tim Ferriss
The All in Pod: Breaking Robinhood’s GameStop Decision
Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
Tim Ferriss Interview w/ Vitalik Buterin
Value Investing in 2021 w/ Mohnish
The Mindset of World Champions
The Tim Ferris Show: #524 Ramit Sethi – How to Play Offense with Money
I Will Teach You To Be Rich Podcast
The Journal: the Facebook Files Part 1: The Whitelist
NPR Interview with Kayak Founder: Paul English
Paulo Coelho, Part 1: What If the Universe Conspired in Your Favor?
Media
Marcus Lemonis: Inside the Diamond District
Drive to Survive Formula 1 Season 3
Making $100K+ per Year Playing Chess
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal
Denzel Washington On Dreams & Goals
Coinbase YCombinator Demo Day Practice - August 2012
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting
Lessons From Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
WeWork: The Making or Breaking of a $47B Unicorn
SpaceX vs. China: The Quest for Satellite Internet
Dollar General's Strategy to Dominate Rural America
Tunisian Swimmer Ahmed Hafnaoui Claims Stunning 400m Freestyle Gold
Adam Neumann in His First Public Interview Since Leaving WeWork
Max Verstappen's First Title in Formula 1
Quotes
“Obsess about customers, not competitors.” - Jeff Bezos
“Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold.” - Warren Buffett
"Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce." - Naval Ravikant
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” - Elon Musk
"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." - Greg McKeown
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” - Mahatma Gandhi
"Life is too short for long-term grudges." - Elon Musk
"We believe our first responsibility is to the patients, doctors and nurses, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services." - James Burke, Former CEO of Johnson & Johnson
“I don’t care about being rich. I care about having independence.” - Charlie Munger, excerpt from his interview with William Green in Richer, Wiser, Happier.
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago" - Warren Buffett
“Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.” – Orrin Woodward
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” - Michael Jordan
“Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.” - Peter Thiel
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” - Winston Churchill
“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” - Dan Gable
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves." - Peter Lynch
“Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.”— John Templeton
“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.” - Alexander Hamilton
“Lost time is never found again.” - Benjamin Franklin
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair." - Sam Ewing
Blog Posts Worth Revisiting
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