Books, Podcasts, Tools & Software I Recommend

True story: I kept finding myself recommending cool stuff to my friends, but...

I'd always have to fumble around to find the links and forget, etc. etc. 🙄

This handy list solves that problem! I hope you find something useful that makes your life better in some small way.

I use affiliate links for Amazon products so I can buy more cool stuff to review. Hopefully that's cool with you. 🤙🏻

📚 Books on Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Productivity & More

• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
• The ONE Thing
• Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding… its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
• Behind the Cloud
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Built From Scratch
• Rework
• Remote: Office Not Required
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
• Principles
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• They Call Me Supermensch
• The 4-Hour Workweek
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
• The 4-Hour Chef
• Growth Hacker Marketing
• Never Eat Alone
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
• Into the Wild
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• Managing Oneself
• Ogilvy on Advertising
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
• Confessions of an Advertising Man
• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
• Atomic Habits
• Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
• Atomic Habits
• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
• Principles

🎧 Podcasts

• Reply All
• Seeking Wisdom
• Six Stars Only
• Masters of Scale
• How I Built This
• Exponent
• Full Stack Radio
• Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
• The Indie Hackers Podcast
• Made You Think
• The Startup Chat
• The Animalz Content Podcast
• Business Wars
• Without Fail
• Akimbo
• Rework
• Accidental Tech Podcast
• Recode Decode
• Jocko Podcast
• The Talk Show with John Gruber
• Revisionist History

🛠️ Tools & Software

• Insanely powerful file search + clipboard manager I can't live without: Alfred
• For my terminal I use iTerm 2
• Most documents live in Google Drive
• I use Rocket for fast emoji shortcuts in any app
• Evernote for, well... Notes
• Amphetamine keeps my screen awake
• Numi is a sweet calculator app
• I edit audio in Adobe Audition and video in Premiere Pro
• Design work usually happens in Sketch
• Easy database management with Sequel Pro
• I dislike Cyberduck, but I use it for FTP because it's free

💻 Useful Gear

• I feel weird about Amazon Echo, but continue to use it anyways
• The keyboard I swear by: Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic
• The mouse I use all day: Logitech MX Master
• My everyday carry bag: Timbuk2 Proof
• I drink from this Hydro Flask water bottle
• This Smartphone car mount is amazing
• I use these cheap cables to charge my iPhone
• I use this microphone to record videos on my iPhone: Shure MV88
• My go-to USB/XLR microphone: ATR 2100
• Bluetooth headphones I use for running
• I use Apple Airpods every day because they’re easy
• Headphones I use to edit audio
• Cheap Audio Interface I use
• Crappy mic stand I use
• Tulip Beer Glasses I enjoy
• Coffee Grinder I use: Baratza Encore
• Favorite single-serve coffee maker: Aeropress
• Favorite coffee dripper: Kalita Wave
• Favorite notebook: Molskine with squared lines