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Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
2003 | 168 pages
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
2011 | 299 pages
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.
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
2007 | 308 pages
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?"
The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing
Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
1993 | 143 pages
No matter what you build, if people donβt 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.
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Don't Make Me Think
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
2013 | 216 pages
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