Resonance calendar

On life and learning

• The road to self renewal [Stanford Alumni Magazine, 1994]
• Don’t be afraid to ask for help, Steve Jobs
• How well do you integrate?
• Crucibles of leadership
• Mastery: Learning how to learn, Yen Liow

Mentorship

• Learning by observing
• Can’t find a mentor? Look to your peers

High agency

• Are you a high-agency person?
• High agency: what is it, why it’s important, and how to cultivate it
• The most precious resource is agency
• High agency explained
• Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters.
• Conspiracy
• 54 lessons for entrepreneurs from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy
• Peter Thiel: You are not a lottery ticket

Finding your true north

• “Just because you’re winning a game doesn’t mean it’s a good game” - Seth Godin
• Competition is for losers, Peter Thiel
• Andy Rachleff 2013: Silicon Valley Career Guide
• “They ranked themselves not by absolute progress towards a transcendent end goal, but by progress within their peer group.”

Speaking up

• How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos

Acknowledging luck, serendipity, and actively working on it

• How to create your own career luck
• How to create luck
• How to maximize serendipity
• 3 ways to attract more luck into your life
• The science behind making your own luck
• Summary: Chase, chance, and creativity: The lucky art of novelty
• Chance, creativity, and idiosyncratic traits
• In the air
• How to get lucky
• The luck factor

“The takeaway from tails is that you should be comfortable when a lot of what you do and see doesn’t work. If you become paralyzed when a few things don’t work you’ll never stick around long enough to enjoy the few things that do.”

• The Laws of Investing
• Tails, you win
• Ironies of luck
• The three sides of risk

Decision making

• The effective decision
• How to make smart decisions without getting lucky
• How a decision journal changed the way I make decisions

Mental models

• Mental models: The best way to make intelligent decisions
• The Latticework
• The ultimate guide to first principles thinking

Other resources/memos

• Memos
• CEO Communications: Michael Lynton, CEO Sony emails (WikiLeaks)
• Compilations