These are a few of my favorite things.

High Output Management 📊

Clear, concise, concrete advice on managing work. Applicable to persons managing AI agents, if that's what your work looks like these days 😉

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat 🧂🧈🍋🔥

Wonderful book on theory and practice of cooking. Instrumental in my transition from Blue Apron cook to master of my own kitchen. 👨‍🍳

I also recommend Blue Apron type services if shopping for one or more recipes is too much effort. Such services tend to expect these items on hand: pot 🍲, pan 🍳, cutting board, knife 🔪, spatula, large wooden spoon 🥄, salt, pepper and olive oil.

How Buildings Learn 🏛️

A visually rich exploration of how people relate to and adapt buildings from the first day they enter a new building, on through the centuries that follow. ⏳

The Power Broker 🗽

A rich biography of a man who built his life entirely around gaining and exploiting power. Incidentally, captures a ~50 year slice of New York City history. 🏙️

Motivational Interviewing 💬

How to help people change and grow, even when the going gets hard. 🤝

Alchemy 🧪

Meditations on marketing, branding, and what makes a product good. ✨

Two sisters sit in front of a fireplace with their cat. On is in a rocking chair reading Fooled by Randomness. The other is knitting a mandelbrot patterened quilt. Bookshelves in the background. Four book titles are visible: Rhetoric, The Black Swan, Foundation, and Meditations. — AI generated content. Two sisters sit in front of a fire in a brick fireplace with their orange cat. The elder sister reads Fooled by Randomness in a rocking chair. The younger sister sits on the floor, knitting a blue and white Mandelbrot patterned blanket. The wall is covered in bookshelves. Four unrealistically large stacked books have titles visible on their spines: Rhetoric, The Black Swan, Foundation, and Meditations.

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