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Additional inspirational content coming soon: Napolean Hill, "Code and Get Rich" Dale Carnegie, "How to Win Data and Influence Google" Norman Vincent Peale,

by edw519 16y ago

Additional inspirational content coming soon: Napolean Hill, "Code and Get Rich" Dale Carnegie, "How to Win Data and Influence Google" Norman Vincent Peale, "The Power of Positive Customer Feedback" Jack Canfield, "Chicken Soup for the Ruby Programmer" Stephen Covey, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Founders" Ken Blanchard, "The One Minute Start-Up" Harold Kushner, "When Bad Data Happens to Good Web Sites" Tony Robbins, "Awaken the Coder Within" Zig Zigler, "See You at the IPO" Robert Kiyosaki, "Rich Angel, Poor Angel" Wayne Dyer, "You'll See It When You Click It" David Allen, "Getting Apps Done" Robert Fulghum, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned at 37signals"

maukdaddy 16y ago
Robert Fulghum, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned at 37signals" HAHA I wonder, due to age, if the average HNer might not get that reference. Regardless, I can't help but feel that would be a hilarious book. A few possibilities: Warm cookies and great design are good for you Wash your hands before you code Say you're sorry when you have downtime
- RyanMcGreal 16y ago
  More: Share everything, preferably on github. Play fair and deploy an API. Don't hit people with bait-and-switch privacy policies. Put things back where you found them or use garbage collection. Clean up your own mess by refactoring, documenting and commenting with a full test suite. Sanitize your inputs before you insert. Flush your input buffer. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and hack and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. When you send data out into the world, watch out for packet sniffers, hold hands, and stick together. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and processes and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
hypeibole 16y ago
You forgot: Spencer Johnson, Who moved my VC?
TheSOB88 16y ago
Pretty damn funny, but don't forget how Ferriss got to where he is in the first place: making a lot of money in a business. (Just to make sure, you're saying he doesn't have a lot of experience with tech startups, right?)
jraines 16y ago
I for one would read at least half of these. I bet if you went to a book summary site & read them, then wrote each of those up as a blog post (or a guest post from someone -- i.e. Jason Calacanis on "How to Win Data and Influence Google" or pg on "Rich Angel, Poor Angel"), you'd have the seed of a healthy blog following.

by edw519 16y ago

maukdaddy 16y ago

Robert Fulghum, "All I Really Need to Know I Learned at 37signals" HAHA I wonder, due to age, if the average HNer might not get that reference. Regardless, I can't help but feel that would be a hilarious book. A few possibilities: Warm cookies and great design are good for you Wash your hands before you code Say you're sorry when you have downtime

RyanMcGreal 16y ago
More: Share everything, preferably on github. Play fair and deploy an API. Don't hit people with bait-and-switch privacy policies. Put things back where you found them or use garbage collection. Clean up your own mess by refactoring, documenting and commenting with a full test suite. Sanitize your inputs before you insert. Flush your input buffer. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and hack and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. When you send data out into the world, watch out for packet sniffers, hold hands, and stick together. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and processes and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

hypeibole 16y ago

You forgot: Spencer Johnson, Who moved my VC?

TheSOB88 16y ago

Pretty damn funny, but don't forget how Ferriss got to where he is in the first place: making a lot of money in a business. (Just to make sure, you're saying he doesn't have a lot of experience with tech startups, right?)

jraines 16y ago

I for one would read at least half of these. I bet if you went to a book summary site & read them, then wrote each of those up as a blog post (or a guest post from someone -- i.e. Jason Calacanis on "How to Win Data and Influence Google" or pg on "Rich Angel, Poor Angel"), you'd have the seed of a healthy blog following.