I was legitimately bummed out when Carrie died, I spent December bouncing between Ho Chi Minh City and Bangkok, ultimately spending Christmas itself in Bangkok after watching Rogue One in Ho Chi Minh City! The amusingly named memoir is fun to read, giving a glimpse in to Carrie’s Hollywood upbringing and partying antics, written in […]

I read this book because a group of us were moving to China, just as Trump was getting voted in to be President of the USA and various military exercises(?) were taking place by both America and China that seemed .. awkward. What would we do if something happened? Where would we go? How would […]

The Year Without Pants is an insightful look in to Scott’s year working as a team lead for WordPress and Automattic’s company culture that allows remote work. What’s most interesting about it, is the culture works! Running a remote team successfully can be incredibly difficult at scale. Their culture was unconventional, employees are independent, working […]

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler was fantastic to read after Exponential Organizations and Abundance. If Exponential Organizations discussed the problems and Abundance discussed the solutions, Bold can be thought of as discussing the implementation! The world’s biggest problems = biggest business opportunities. Like […]

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis is a fantastic, tackling the world’s largest and most important problems such as overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom. This is probably the most optimistic book I’ve ever read. In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere. Abundance is a […]

Salim Ismail‎ – Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) is the first of 3 books I’ve read recently, all stemming from Singularity University, and was full of big thinking around what exponential organisations are and case studies of how some were formed, how they […]

Anyone doing any kind of marketing should read this book, period. Covering 6 key principles of influence, Robert Cialdini is a committed genius who not only uses scientific case studies to back up the principles he describes, but also real world experience, having ‘gone under cover’ working in restaurants, etc. to observe influence in action! […]

Zero To One is a great book that pulls no punches, the basic premise of it is, when creating a startup, to really make a difference: Be first Be 10 times better than the competition Obviously it’s up to you what you do, some business models are just about scratching some of the existing market […]

As a beginner to Google Adwords, who was blowing $100+ a day and making no sales (serious) this book was an eye opener. In theory Adwords is easy, choose keywords, create advert, throw money at problem, profit, but the reality wasn’t quite like that for me. This book explained exactly why, what I was doing […]

This book is amazing. A must read for anyone who is branding anything, whether it’s a product, a website or themselves, reading this was like a punch in the face with respect to every branding decision I’ve ever made! With 22 immutable laws, it’s fairly simple, and entertaining to follow. Each law has examples of […]