Self help genre nerd snipes a lot of otherwise intelligent people. It is a bottomless pit. Vaguely useful is reading biographies of interesting people/companie

Self help genre nerd snipes a lot of otherwise intelligent people. It is a bottomless pit. Vaguely useful is reading biographies of interesting people/companies like John Carmack or the Chucky Cheese dude, and so on. Gives you a bit of color on their experience, look at that crazy journey, sounds wild, I want to have a life like that.. Think of it like Harvard business case reviews but without the just-so tea-leaves retroactive nonsense - that path is for consultants. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. If you have a cool idea just chase it down and see what happens, figure out the rest as you go. :)