Every now and then I like to mix up the format of Swipe File. Instead of the usual five articles, here is a list of stuff I've read and enjoyed recently.
- Signal v. Noise: Why We Choose Profit
- QuickBooks: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Hack the Pygmalion Effect to Their Advantage
- Kayako: Get over Creative Blocks, Beat Resistance, and Do the Work
- Ray Dalio: How the Economic Machine Works
- Ryan Holiday: The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read
- Men's Journal: King of the Hill: How Vail Resorts Conquered the Ski Industry
- Rolling Stone: Why We're Living in the Age of Fear
- Esquire: Windows on the World: A 9/11 Story About Wine and Wisdom
- The Atlantic: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy
- Backchannel: How Meetup Ditched Its Boys Club
- Motherboard: The City That Was Saved by the Internet
- Openview Labs: Why Do SaaS Companies Still Charge by the User
- Esquire: I Think You're Fat
- Inc: How 2 Brothers Turned a $300 Cooler Into a $450 Million Cult Brand
- 37Signals: The Original Manifesto
- Cal Newport: Are You Working In Your Career or On Your Career?
- Help Scout: How to Work a 40-Hour Week
- 25iq: A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Mental Models and Worldly Wisdom
- Harvard Business Review: Why Americans Are So Impressed by Busyness
- Thrive Global: The United States of Burnout
- Clayton Christensen: How Will You Measure Your Life?
- Brian Balfour: 7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career
- Business Insider: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigated the science of productivity — here’s what he found
- Results Junkies: Having a job is riskier than you think.
- Casey Winters: Pinterest's Retention Wins, and Why 90% of SEO Advice is Wrong
- Quartz: Google discovers the key to good teamwork is being nice
- Attack the Front: Your Body Text Is Too Small
- Gary Vaynerchuk: How to Win in Business? Be Open to Change
- The Atlantic: In Mental Exercise, Variety Matters
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich: The invisible scripts that guide our lives
- New York Times: Spend the Money for the Good Boots, and Wear Them Forever
Have a great weekend!
Jimmy