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

Cumulative metrics (since 4/1/24):

• Total books read: 79
• Total blog posts published: 518

This week’s metrics:

• Books read: 1
• Blog posts published: 7

What I completed this week (link to last week’s commitments):

• Read The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get, Joe Ricketts’s memoir detailing his journey to found Ameritrade, pioneer the discount brokerage model, and sell Ameritrade for over $2 billion
• Added four more books that I read in 2019 and 2018 to the library on this site—see more here; they were about an empire built on cocaine, how twins turned their Facebook winnings into a billion via Bitcoin, the Theranos fraud, and how Ross Ulbricht built the Silk Road and got arrested

What I’ll do next week:

• Read a biography, autobiography, or framework book
• Add two more books that I read before 2024 to the library on this site—see more here

Asks:

• Seeking technical lead or cofounder – I’m looking for a senior full-stack developer skilled in AI retrieval. If you know one who’d have an interest in working on the software project related to books, please introduce us!

Week two hundred eighty-four was another week of learning. Looking forward to next week!