Useful for anyone trying to bootstrap a new community or network, which is virtually every founder these days.

Nir Eyal's bestselling book tackles the problem of modern distraction by empowering us to break the bad habits at the root of the issue. He delves into the deeper psychology causing us to go off track, an ancient problem even Plato lamented.

This fundamental cycle in technology: people get really amped about a technology, then you try to actually do it, you find it’s actually hard, most people get demoralized and they quit.

If you want to find startup ideas here’s the book. It came out in the late ’90s. It’s the most prescient thing in the world. With most bestsellers, you can distill 300 pages into a one-page summary. This book is the opposite. You can take one page and turn it into a Ph.D thesis.

How tech founders always had to fight against the establishment, just like the present day.

The preprint went viral on Hacker News a while back. Brian Armstrong and I used parts of this at Coinbase and Naval Ravikant has used this at several of his companies. We found it helpful!

We’ve all read Grove. Only the paranoid survive.

In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO (and employee number three) of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. Born of Grove’s experiences at one of America’s leading technology companies, High Output Management is equally appropriate for sales managers, accountants, consultants, and teachers, as well as CEOs and startup founders. Grove covers techniques for creating highly productive teams, demonstrating methods of motivation that lead to peak performance—throughout, High Output Management is a practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.

Just read it.