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I love to read and read a lot. Also see: https://www.zeneca.io/chiaracokieng

Just-In-Time Reading: How to smash through books to solve problems

I recently changed my relationship with books I read to solve work problems. Not only has it helped me actually solve work problems, it has also freed up my personal time to read books for personal enjoyment. Here’s the tl;dr: When you’re looking for a solution to

Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want

Customer Development & Lean Startup in B2B

Getting to Plan B

I smashed through [https://www.chiaracokieng.com/just-in-time-reading-how-to-use-books-to-solve-problems/] Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model [https://amzn.to/3s61XNo]. Below are my notes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Process Find suitable analogs and antilogs, identify leaps of faith time and again, and build a dashboard with metrics to guide

3 Rules on How to Be Happy, according to Alexander Green

Rule #1: Don’t pursue it. Searching for happiness is a chief source of unhappiness. Why? Because happiness is a by-product, not of searching for it, but of getting busy with other things. Which things? See Rule #2. Rule #2: Get busy on things that produce happiness as a by-product.

[H] Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Summary 1. What are my strengths? 2. How do I perform? 1. Am I a reader or a listener? 2. How do I learn? 3. Do I work well with people, or am I a loner? 4. And if you do work well with people, you then must ask, in

Book: Gateless by Sebastian Marshall and Kai Zau

Co-authored by my hero and mentor, Sebastian Marshall [http://chiaracokieng.com/marshall/]. A guidebook for the modern career. Provides a useful framework of “the Four Currencies” you need to manage to create your own path in this new world – Capacity, Network, Signal, Assets. If you’re a person who’s

Job Hunting Directives from Knock 'em Dead

This is the book that taught me that like anything else, job searching is a skill. It can be learned and honed. Job searching is a personal sales campaign. 1. The goal is to get into as many conversations as quickly and as often as possible with the people who

Book Review and Notes: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction] Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction] by Cathy O’Neil [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6928121.Cathy_O_Neil] My rating: 5 of 5 stars [https://www.goodreads.com/

My reading year, 2017

These are the books that stuck with me in 2017. 2017 is the year I learned how todo my job. What is my job? It is to not tell grand stories to myself about how great and talented I am, how full of potential, how awesome the things I will

Books and highlights - Week of 4 December 2017

Books opened week of Monday, 4 December 2017 * Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less * The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues * The Advantage, Enhanced Edition: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business * The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization * The Four Obsessions