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What're your most recommended books?

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I come across this site and made my list.

https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/camelliayang

What're your all-time favourite books that influenced your life?

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    I loved reading the trilogy from Yuval Noah Harari starting wit Sapiens 🙂 I think it shows well how we came to be who we are now as a species.

    I also liked Freakonomics, by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, and The tipping point, by Malcolm Gladwell!

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      Thank you, Florian! Love your recommendations! And I'll check out your book!

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    The little prince. Simple, elegant, and deep.

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        I loved the recent film as well. It had its own take but the same emotional touch points, along with the philosophy.

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          Yep! As a Chinese saying goes, the way to achieve great success tends to be the simplest one 大道至简。

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    Nice list. Many on there I'm hoping to get to!

    I recently read "Understanding Michael Porter" and I think it's a very good one for indiehackers specifically to read. It's a summary of essays about business strategy and competition, but very accessible and quite insightful. Covers things like the value chain, industry structure, why execution alone isn't a competitive advantage. Not as boring as it sounds, though perhaps not up to date with the modern SaaS world. Regardless, I think it still applies.

    Something I took away was about how instead of competing to be the best (or worse, competing on price), we should be competing to be unique and really try to differentiate ourselves.

    Some highlights I dug out on readwise:

    "Competition to be unique reflects a different mind-set and a different way of thinking about the nature of competition. Here, companies pursue distinctive ways of competing aimed at serving different sets of needs and customers. The focus, in other words, is on creating superior value for the chosen customers, not on imitating and matching rivals."

    "The real point of competition is not to beat your rivals. It’s not about winning a sale. The point is to earn profits."

    "Strategy means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value. If all rivals produce the same way, distribute the same way, service the same way, and so on, they are, in Porter’s terms, competing to be the best, and not competing on strategy."

    I also have an incomplete but ever-growing list of book recommendations if you're interested! I think Thinking In Systems is probably one of my favourites on that list too.

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      Wow! Thanks for the recommendation! I'm adding it to my list!

      The book recommendations website you use is brilliant! I'm going to sign up now!

      I love the collection you gathered! Range and Why We Sleep are good readings too!

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        The book recommendations website you use is brilliant! I'm going to sign up now!

        Thanks! We've been building the site after work for more than year now. I gave you a follow on there :)

        Range and Why We Sleep

        Loved them both, but why we sleep is a bit terrifying.

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          Awesome! I signed up https://beta.readng.co/user/camelliayang and looking forward to using your site to replace my Goodread site! The only function I enjoy from Goodread that yet not available on your site is the writer's page and RSS for the writer's blog. I'm a writer myself and would love to have a page that my readers know what I'm currently reading. Good luck and keep up with your amazing work!

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            Funny you mention RSS, we haven't publically announced it anywhere but each collection on the site actually has an RSS feed. They are currently only accessible if you view the page source, but for example, the three feeds for your main collections are:

            Would these work for your needs or are you looking for something else?

            As for writer pages, I think that's our top upvoted feature on our request board! Definitely on the roadmap

            Thanks for the feedback!

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              That's awesome! So glad you have the strong mindset to serve users' need! I'll keep my eyes open for a future update!

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    I love Niche Down by Christopher Lochhead and Heather Clancy. It's great for founders looking to further define their ICP.

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      That's awesome! I'm in the middle of niche down my products and service! Just in time!

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    This is an interesting angle on an affiliate site. Do you make money on the links or just the website?

    I publish some lists of my favorite books on my personal blog with affiliate links too if anyone wants to give them a try:

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      Thank you for sharing your list! I see a lot of overlap with my selections too! Great choice, haha!
      I don't know how they monetize the website as I'm a user only. I do have my page to list my favourite books and podcasts https://www.camelliayang.com/bp.html. I have to add the affiliate link to my site! Good reminder!

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    Oh that website is just like one of the product ideas on my list. :)

    Anyway to answer your question I'd ask you what kind of thing you want to learn about first.

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      Haha my question is not to ask for any recommendation for myself but suggest people create their own list that they think has a huge impact on their lives. This question is not about me but you :)

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