Library

A necessarily incomplete and ever-evolving collection of readings and resources that have inspired and instructed me over time. Enjoy.

Podcasts

• Akimbo (Seth Godin)
• On Being (Krista Tippett)
• The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)
• Masters of Scale (Reid Hoffman)
• 21st Century Creative (Mark McGuinness)
• Hurry Slowly (Jocelyn K. Glei)
• The Tim Ferriss Show
• Design Matters (Debbie Millman)
• WorkLife (Adam Grant)
• Reply All (PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman)

Websites and Blogs

• Seth’s Blog (start here, here, here, and here)
• It’s Your Turn
• Michael Bungay Stanier, Box of Crayons (see also “Exactly How I Self-Published My Book …”)
• Brené Brown (see resources and guides)
• Farnam Street
• I Will Teach You to be Rich (Ramit Sethi)
• That Seems Important (Margo Aaron)
• Creative on Purpose (Scott Perry)
• Avraham Byers
• “Should I Work For Free?” (flowchart by Jessica Hische)
• Steve Pressfield
• Derek Sivers (start with his book list)
• Dan Pink (start here)
• NOBL
• Effective Thesis
• Adam Grant
• Nancy Duarte (start here)
• David Whyte
• Jill Konrath (start here)
• Logic & Emotion (start here)
• SYPartners free tools
• Bernadette Jiwa, the Story of Telling
• The Donella Meadows Project
• The Corker Co. (they have a fun podcast, too)
• Ittybiz.com (Naomi Dunford)
• Men with Pens (“James Chartrand”)
• Brain Pickings (Maria Popova)

Free Coaching and Career Resources

• 21st Century Creative foundation course
• Five-part War of Art audio mini-course (sign up at stevenpressfield.com)
• 80,000 Hours
• Linchpin Jobs
• Project X

Free Ebooks

• Stop Stealing Dreams (What is School For?)
• Insubordinate
• The Bootstrapper’s Bible
• Many other free resources from and related to Seth, all in one spreadsheet
• 21 Insights for 21st Century Creatives (Mark McGuinness)
• Henry Mintzberg, Managers, Not MBAs (excerpt)
• Stockdale on Stoicism: lectures I and II

An Impossibly Small Sampling of Books, With No Disrespect Meant to the Many Hundreds and Thousands of Other Wonderful Books in This World

• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
• E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed
• David Whyte, The Heart Aroused
• Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
• Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit
• William Tydeman, Conversations with Barry Lopez
• Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
• Brian Doyle, Mink River and The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be
• Bill Aulet, Disciplined Entrepreneurship
• Otto Scharmer, Theory U
• Richard Neustadt and Ernest May, Thinking in Time
• Joan Magretta, Understanding Michael Porter
• Steven Pressfield, The War of Art and Turning Pro
• Cicero, On Duties
• C. S. Lewis, “The Inner Ring” and “Is Progress Possible?” (essays)
• Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
• Epictetus, The Enchiridion
• Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive (see also his article “Managing Oneself”)
• Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America (or any of his books, really)
• Parker Palmer (any; good to start with Let Your Life Speak)