Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and investors and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 132
• Total blog posts published: 889

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Blog posts published: 7

What I completed in the week ending 9/13/26 (link to the previous week’s commitments):

• Reread A Technique for Producing Ideas by James Webb Young, a framework book detailing a five-step formula for idea generation

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book

Week three hundred thirty-seven was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!

Below, I share content I consumed and learned from last week. I spent time doing general learning about a variety of topics.

What I consumed last week and what I learned from it:

• Why self-directed investing builds judgement skills – YouTube interview with finance technology entrepreneur Tom Sosnoff. His insight that self-directed investing helps you build the skill of how to think under uncertainty really stuck with me. Calibrated judgment under uncertainty is the value that accrues regardless of your portfolio return. His point aboutthat self-directed investing beingis one of the few ways that salaried, W2 employees can get repetitions with an owner’s mindset (capital allocation, risk sizing, reading balance sheets, etc.) makes a lot of sense. Sosnoff thinks the change to zero commissions changed everything in the world of investing. This reminds me of the regulation -change tailwind that Charles Schwab and  Joe Ricketts rode when they founded their discount brokerage platforms (see here and here).

That’s what I learned from what I consumed last week.

Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and investors and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 131
• Total blog posts published: 882

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Blog posts published: 7

What I completed in the week ending 9/6/26 (link to the previous week’s commitments):

• Read How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O’Neil, a framework book detailing the characteristics displayed by the best-performing stocks in the 120+ years of data O’Neil reviewed

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book

Week three hundred thirty-six was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!

Below, I share content I consumed and learned from last week. I spent time doing general learning about a variety of topics.

What I consumed last week and what I learned from it:

• Worth $100m and living on less than $100k – YouTube interview with finance technology entrepreneur Bill Harris. Bill was CEO of Intuit, PayPal, and several other companies. His thinking about simplifying his life and living on less than $100k was surprising. He’s done it all, and it’s interesting to see what he truly values at 71.
• Zapier’s AI platform is impressive – YouTube interview with technology entrepreneur Wade Foster, founder/CEO of Zapier. Seeing how he uses AI gave me lots of ideas. To challenge my thinking, I definitely want to copy his tactics for using AI to get a daily end-of-day brief in which I instruct agents to execute tasks while I sleep.

That’s what I learned from what I consumed last week.

I like to take downtime and relax a bit on holidays, but I’ve developed a habit of also setting a challenge for myself for each one. It’s a fun way to push myself or make progress on something I’ve been putting off. Sometimes I accomplish exactly what I set out to do, and sometimes I don’t, but I always learn something.

Last week I read How to Get Rich in American History. One of the concepts in the book stood out: fast time vs. slow time. But I haven’t had time to dig into it more to make sure I really understand it.

My challenge for Labor Day is to review this concept in the book and share my understanding in a post.

That’s it. Pretty simple. Wish me luck!

Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and investors and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 130
• Total blog posts published: 875

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Blog posts published: 7

What I completed in the week ending 8/30/26 (link to the previous week’s commitments):

• Read How to Get Rich in American History by Joseph S. Moore, a history book detailing the strategies Americans have used to climb the prosperity ladder

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book

Week three hundred thirty-five was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!

Every week, I share content that I consumed and learned from during the previous week.

This week, I consumed less content than usual, and none of it is worth sharing. Hopefully next week will be more normal and I’ll have insights worth sharing in this space.

Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and investors and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 129
• Total blog posts published: 868

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Blog posts published: 7

What I completed in the week ending 8/23/26 (link to the previous week’s commitments):

• Read The Heart of Innovation by Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah, and Mark Wegman, a framework book on finding authentic demand in potential customers. Two of the authors, Furst and Chanoff, founded Flashpoint, Georgia Tech’s start-up engineering studio.

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book

Week three hundred thirty-four was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!

Below, I share content I consumed and learned from last week. I spent time doing general learning about a variety of topics.

What I consumed last week and what I learned from it:

• Turning risk appetite to entrepreneurship – YouTube interview with finance technology entrepreneur Tom Sosnoff. His appetite for taking risks and his parlaying of his risk appetite into starting financial technology companies caught my attention. Sosnoff is 69 years old but doesn’t look it. He attributes his youthfulness to not believing in retirement (he loves building stuff) and to hanging around young people and continually learning. His belief that your decision-making speed and the speed at which your brain processes information are key to creating wealth resonated with me. Sosnoff sold his first company for $600 million and then sold his second company for $1.1 billion.

That’s what I learned from what I consumed last week.

Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs and investors and sharing what I learned from them

Mission: Create a library of wisdom from notable entrepreneurs that current entrepreneurs can leverage to increase their chances of success

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 128
• Total blog posts published: 861

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Blog posts published: 7

What I completed in the week ending 8/16/26 (link to the previous week’s commitments):

• Read Afro Sheen, an autobiography by George E. Johnson about his life as an entrepreneur. Johnson founded Johnson Products Company, which transformed the Black hair care market in the 1950s–1970s. Johnson was also a 50% owner in the wildly popular TV show Soul Train.

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book

Asks:

• No ask this week

Week three hundred thirty-three was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!