Bookworm

Today's author promises to help us live with agency and take control of our future. Join Mike & Cory as they consider how to stop waiting and build the life they want.
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Woody Walls
The Goal by Eli Goldratt
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
All The Wrong Moves by Sasha Chapin
Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray
The Story of You by Ian Morgan Cron
Grit by Angela Duckworth
The Meaning of Your Life by Arthur Brooks
Situated by Angela Duckworth
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Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Life, unlike textbooks, has no answer key. Today's author promises to help us think and live beyond the syllabus. Join Mike & Cory as they rethink what it means to be educated.
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Typefully
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Uncommon Sense by William Brody
Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann
The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish
Focused #263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
The Second Mountain by David Brooks
How to Be Everything by Emilie Wapnick
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
The Goal: A Business Graphic Novel
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
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Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Today's author promises to help us improve our money mindset by sharing several short stories that teach timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness.
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Amplify Cohort
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
You Can Just Do Things by Cate Hall
30 Lessons for Living by Karl Pillemer
Uncommon Sense by William Brody
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Today's author argues that all of us—individuals, businesses, institutions, even societies—can benefit from narrowing our options. Join Mike & Cory as they attempt to transform themselves—and the world—by embracing constraints.
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Inside the Box by David Epstein
Mike's Amplify Cohort
The Growth Intensive
The Goal by Eli Goldratt
Apple: The First 50 Years by David Pogue
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
Six Sigma
Anatomy of a Breakthrough by Adam Alter
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Dave Ramsey Debt Snowball
Range by David Epstein
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Uncommon Sense by William Brody
Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Some people wake up at 4 AM, run fifteen miles barefoot, and then meditate in an ice bath. Today's author promises to help the rest of us transform our lives by giving up more often, failing faster, and mastering the art of starting over.
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Bookworm #252: The Book of Elon
How to Try Again by Steve Kamb
Nerd Fitness
The Case for Delusional Confidence
Museum of Failure
The Growth Intensive
Bookworm #219: Tiny Experiments
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Dark Souls
Inside the Box by David Epstein
Range by David Epstein
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
Bandersnatch
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Mike's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cory's Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐