Thomas Frank Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@thejustinwelsh @ESYudkowsky Also The Dip by @ThisIsSethsBlog and Pivot by @jenny_blake. Fantastic 1-2 punch for learning how to quit/pivot strategically

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@IrfanBhuiyan16 Also highly recommend reading Seth Godin's "The Dip" - or listening to our podcast episode on it: https://t.co/IBW9WLAACH Great book about knowing when to quit/pivot @jenny_blake also has a great book called Pivot that's worth a read too!

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I have a rotation of audiobooks I use to fall asleep. They include: - Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick - Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

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@danavirsarria @MattGiovanisci Cal Newport would call this the "Any-Benefit" approach (from Deep Work). Do you think the email popup is actually harming your affiliate conversions? What's the job of the post? To drive sales, or to build your list?

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@theJoshRedd @myfirstmilpod How Music Works by David Byrne is a good one that you won't see many people mention. Made a video about it a few years ago: https://t.co/fCP9S2dhKx

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6 books you should read if you're an entrepreneur (or want to be): - The Motivation Hacker by @nwinter - Pivot by @jenny_blake - Atomic Habits by @JamesClear - The Personal MBA by @joshkaufman - Thinking in Bets by @AnnieDuke - The 4-Hour Workweek by @tferriss

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@AliAbdaal I see you liked @BrandSanderson's books so much you read them all twice 😛 Also Steven Levy's "Hackers" for me

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@phuctm97 @audible_com Some of my faves: - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen - Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick - The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll - American Kingpin by Nick Bilton - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou - Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

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@AliAbdaal If you like hard sci-fi, AI, genetic algorithms, etc, you might like Permutation City by Greg Egan. Also Children of Time if you haven't read it. Also, I'll always recommend a couple narrative non-fictions - The Cuckoo's Egg and American Kingpin

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@levelsio There was an interesting bit in Kevin Poulsen's book Kingpin about how the card processors were loudly blaming the majority of fraud back in the early 2000's on customers losing their physical cards, when they knew all along that the largest driver of fraud was coming through… https://t.co/Rmg813G0Ky