Cannot advocate enough for reading this back-to-back with "The Memory Librarian" by Janelle Monáe. So many overlapping themes and concepts.
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phildini, while reading wants to read Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
"I can't remember when I've learned as much from something I've read―or laughed as much while doing it." ―Jacob Weisberg, …
phildini, while reading wants to read The Flavor Bible by Karen Page
The Flavor Bible by Karen Page
Winner of the 2009 James Beard Book Award for Best Book: Reference and Scholarship Great cooking goes beyond following a …
phildini, while reading wants to read Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
phildini, while reading wants to read This Explains Everything by John Brockman
This Explains Everything by John Brockman
Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations …
phildini, while reading wants to read Historic San Francisco by Rand Richards
phildini, while reading wants to read Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies …
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Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by …
Social media is robbing us of the archives and memory.
— Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey (Page 34)
phildini, while reading finished reading Digger Unearthed by Ursula Vernon
The story of a wombat on an incredible journey of discovery Kurt Busiek calls "utterly …
This was even better than I expected
phildini, while reading started reading Early Exits by Basil Peters
Early Exits by Basil Peters
Exits are the least understood part of investing and entrepreneurship. Very little has been written about exits - the emphasis …
phildini, while reading started reading The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (The Bone Witch, #1)
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (The Bone Witch, #1)
Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized …
phildini, while reading started reading Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
phildini, while reading reviewed The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
Great advice wrapped in mediocre memes
3 stars
Look, the thing you have to understand about this book is that the guy who wrote it comes from a time where Silicon Valley venture capital was even more explicitly a boy's club. I'm not saying it's not today, I'm saying there are at least some signs of progress along equity and equality lines.
If you can get past the Hawaiian dude-bro attitude that is authentic to Guy Kawasaki, what you'll find is a pretty concise, easy-reading volume of intensely practical startup advice. It's written for a startup scene circa 2004, but it still feels shockingly relevant today.
If you have no desire to run a startup, don't read this book. If you want just the best advice from the book, here's my take on it: phildini.dev/key-insights-from-the-art-of-the-start
If you do want to start a startup, then, with a sigh, I encourage you to think about reading this book.
