Current Project: Reading books about entrepreneurs 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

What I struggled with:

• For weeks, I’ve been looking for a developer to replace my friend. I’ve chatted with several developers but haven’t found the right person. This is frustrating because it’s slowing things down more than I anticipated.

What I learned:

• Ben Thompson’s Great Unbundling essay (see here) describes how technology and unbundling have impacted various media forms. This great piece articulates clearly how and why the media industry has changed. Notably, it doesn’t mention books. This essay got me thinking.
• An avid reader who shares his book reading and learning from books on X (formerly Twitter) is doing the same manual note-taking and highlighting that I do.
• Quotes and maxims are valuable and resonate with people. The person mentioned above keeps a file of quotes from the books he’s read. I’m stealing his idea.
• Cold outreach via X works well when you have a body of work to share that complements what others are doing. It establishes your credibility.
• The issue with sharing information from books is that they’re full of unstructured text. Tools like Reducto focus on the unstructured text problem. Investors are getting behind these companies (see here). These tools might be useful because we might not have to build extraction tools from scratch.
• I played around with Google Tag Manager for the first time. I’m aiming to start tracking information that’s more granular on this blog.

Those are my struggles and learnings from the week.