“Any damn fool can make it complex. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
-Ray Dalio
All posts by Mitch
“To live is to suffer. To survive is to find meaning in the suffering”.
-Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning
2021 Books Read
- Relational Intelligence by Dharius Daniels
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Quiet by Susan Cain
- Post Corona by Scott Galloway
- No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings
- Principles by Ray Diallo
- The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone
- Think Again by Adam Grant
- What it takes by Stephen Schwarzman
- Get some headspace by Andy Puddicombe
- Failing Forward by John Maxwell
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Will by Will Smith
- The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work by John Gottiman
- The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
- The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim
Biography
What It Takes by Stephen Schwarzman
Will by Will Smith
History
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Business Management & Leadership
Principles by Ray Diallo
No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings
Post Corona by Scott Galloway
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Failing Forward by John Maxwell
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Random/Miscellaneous
Quiet by Susan Cain
The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone
Think Again by Adam Grant
The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work by John Gottiman
Get Some Headspace by Andy Puddicombe
Relational Intelligence by Dharius Daniels
The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim
“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”
– Proverbs 15:22
“It is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements on a daily basis.”
– James Clear
November 2021, Articles & Podcast
Articles and podcast that I’ve read/listened to this month that are noteworthy and highly recommended:
- HBS Case Study: Mented Cosmetics
- APA: Apology to People of Color for APA’s Role in Promoting, Perpetuating, and Failing to Challenge Racism, Racial Discrimination, and Human Hierarchy in U.S.
- Washington Post: As D.C.’s Black population shrinks, the Turkey Bowl is one of the few traditions that endures
- CNBC: Sneakers generated $70B last year. Black retailers saw little of that.
- Yahoo! Finance: Service Industry Career Platform, QuickHire, Raises $1.41M to Tackle ‘Great Resignation’
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it”
– Peter Drucker
April 2021, Articles & Podcast
Noteworthy articles and podcast that I’ve read/listened to this month:
- HBS Case Study: How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Investment Opportunities
- The Day They Chose Hate: Arkansas and The Choice On Who Gets Protected
- Moving Your People to Action
- How I Stumbled Into An Equity Lens
- Newcomer: Bessemer’s Big Exit, Clubhouse, and ‘The Curse of Bigness’
- McKinsey Papers: Speed and resilience: Five priorities for the next five months
- McKinsey Papers: Boards and decision making
- The Daily: A Vast Web of Vengeance
- The Daily: Europe’s Vaccination Problem
- More Equity: Morgan DeBaun of Blavity
- The Prof G Show: Episode 58
- The Indicator: What McDonald’s Tells Us about Minimum Wage
- The Indicator: Too Many Real Estate Agents
- Divergent Unicorn: Increasing Cap Table Diversity with Megan Holston-Alexander
- The Journal: Why China is Jumping into Digital Currency
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt, 1901
