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The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing

Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
Al Ries & Jack Trout
1993 | 143 pages
Al Ries & Jack Trout | 1993 | 143 pages
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No matter what you build, if people don’t know about it, it will never be successful. This book will teach you the fundamentals of marketing and will give you a core understanding of how to attract people to your product.

The single most wasteful think you can do in marketing is try to change a mind

The War of Art

Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield
2003 | 168 pages
Steven Pressfield | 2003 | 168 pages
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This book gets into why we procrastinate and gives you actionable way to stay productive in a creative field. If you ever feel uninspired to do work you initially set out to complete, this book will show you why and how to overcome that resistance.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

The Lean Startup

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries
2011 | 299 pages
Eric Ries | 2011 | 299 pages
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This book goes into depth about how to create, test, and validate a Minim Viable Product (MVP) in the context of a startup. After reading you will better understand the importance of validating assumptions and learn how to quickly discover if what you are building is even desired by customers.

Unfortunately, "learning" is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution.

The 4-Hour Workweek

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
2007 | 308 pages
Timothy Ferriss | 2007 | 308 pages
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This book is full of "life hacks" and provides a different way to think about the trajectory of your life and career. If you desire to work remotely or for yourself, this book is a must read.

The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug
2013 | 216 pages
Steve Krug | 2013 | 216 pages
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Having a website or app is completely useless if no one knows how to use it, so UX design is not something you can ignore. This book will teach you how to think like a user and more importantly how to build software that's easy to use.

Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away