Book recommendations?

The Mom Test.

"The Hard Thing About Hard Things"
By Ben Horowitz

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Nail it then Scale it by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom

All very useful. Have to be quite careful with business books - I've found a lot aren't useful for bootstrap founders.

Finally, as a reminder of the importance of sleep which I along with many have ignored - Why we sleep by Matthew Walker

Few books have had as much of an impact on my life than Cal Newport’s Deep Work or James Clear’s Atomic Habits—focus and habitual behaviour are a powerful force multiplier.

On work, David Epstein’s Range is a great read on the future of your work in a generalised world and why you’re probably doing it wrong. Bill Walsh’s The Score Takes Care of Itself is a memoir and philosophy for work and life that really resonated with me (and I don’t even watch football).

On life, Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle is the Way was my first introduction to Stoicism and I recommend it to anyone trying to find balance.

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https://www.goodbooks.io

Give and Take by Adam Grant
Atomic Habits by James Clear
A random walkdown wall street
Designing Data Intensive Application
surely you’re joking mr. feynman
how to win friends and influence people
lean startup
The Go programming languate
make your bed
hard thing about hard things
thinking fast and slow (I couldn’t complete this book. Its too much content)

https://viggy28.dev/book/books-recommendation/

I also publish a summary in my blog.

Here are the books that most influenced me:

"The Lean Startup" Eric Ries
"Anything You Want" Derek Sivers
"Zero to One" Peter Thiel
"Rework" Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
"The $100 Startup" Chris Guillebeau
"Hooked" Nir Eyal
"Founders at Work" Jessica Livingston
Pretty much anything by Seth Godin

It's an online manual of some sort from the people at Basecamp. Amazingly useful:

https://basecamp.com/gettingreal

Read about sales and accounting.

1. Jeremy Johnson from Salesloft shares great advice on sales - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremeydonovan/

2. Accounting - find a udemy course with great reviews and email them requesting a discount.

Both knowledge bases are incredibly crucial for being a successful business person.

Shameless plug: I compiled book recommendations from over 100 founders a while back and launched it on Postmake. Most of the recommendations came from going through the hundreds of interviews here on Indie Hackers, but I also reached out to a lot of people on Twitter.

Along with each recommendation, I included the founders that recommended them so you get a better picture of each recommendation by learning more about the founders and their startups / companies.

Here's the final list: postmake.io/startup-books

Depends on the company you're running, but if I had to choose just one book, it'd be The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. It's a great overview that packs in as much information as concisely as possible.

Perhaps not related but I've started reading Rich Dad Poor Dad by R. Kiyosaki.

Tools of Titans

I think "How Google Works" is a good choice.