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After the tremendous response from my last post, I wanted to share my top 10 books of 2021. There are several reasons that I have chosen these books over others. Most notably, I find myself referen...

Last year my brother bought me 12 books for my birthday in January. So I thought if I got through them all by the end of the year, that would be a considerable achievement. Little did I know at the...

"Wisdom is knowing the long term consequences of your actions. Wisdom applied to external problems is judgement." Book 60: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jo...

'If not now, when? and if not me, then who?' Book 59: 'Courage Is Calling' by Ryan Holiday. Amazon's editorial team recommended this book as one of the top 10 business and leadership books for 2021...

“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting th...

"Daniel O'Connell made himself a symbol of defiance and resistance." Book 57: 'King Dan: The Rise of Daniel O'Connell 1775-1829' by Patrick M.Geoghegan. Daniel O'Connell remains one of the most imp...

"The famine has been described as a watershed in Irish political and social history. The society which emerged from behind its dark shadow was, in certain key respects, structurally different from ...

"A rooster crow does not cause the sun to rise, even though it always preceded the sun." Book 55: 'The Book of Why: The new science of Cause and Effect' by Judea Pearl & Dan Mackenzie. This book wa...

"The top producers and sales superstars are fanatical prospectors who take personal responsibility for identifying and creating their own sales opportunities." Book 54: 'Fanatical Prospecting' by J...

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." ~Peter Drucker Book 53: 'Combo Prospecting' by Tony J. Hughes. This book was a follow on from the book I rec...

Last January, I set myself a small target of 12 books for the year. As of last week, I had finished my 52nd book. One of my friends recently asked me: "Was I reading the whole book?". The answer is...

"Without consistency, you have no predictability." Book 52: Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross. This b...

Proud to have our new primer paper published by @Pluto_Digital on "DeFi: An Unstoppable Wave?" This paper contributes to the knowledge base for newcomers to the DeFi space. I thoroughly enjoyed div...

"Professional selling is about making a positive difference in the lives of others, personally and professionally." Book 51: 'Tech-Powered Sales' by Justin Michael & Tony Hughes. Anybody who has ev...

"How you handle your own time, in my view, is the single most important aspect of being a role model." Book 50: 'High Output Management' by Andrew S.Grove. This book came with recommendations from ...

“I live the focused life because it’s the best life to live” ~Winifred Gallagher Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive...

"The quality of your thinking depends on the models in your head" Book 48: This weeks book was 'The Great Mental Models Vol3- Systems and Mathematics'. The previous two books I had read earlier in ...

Delighted to start mentoring a young graduate this week looking to enter the job market in sales. Here's this week's advice for anyone trying to get into sales. People hire for: Character Intellige...

“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation” ~Robert Estabrook Book 47: ‘Never split the difference: Negotiating as if your lif...

Lately, I've found myself talking to people about NFT's (Non-Fungible Tokens). Although there is a huge curiosity in this space, people still don't know 'how' or 'where' to get started? With the la...

"Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of human freedoms- to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." Book 46: 'Mans Search For Mean...

"Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another." Book 45: 'Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success by Angela Duckworth'. Grit is made up primarily of passion a...

"Controlling your time is the highest dividend money pays." Book 44: 'The Psychology of Money' by Morgan Housel. This book was recommended by several people. A lot of these things you will already ...

'We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them '~ Albert Einstein This week I read 'Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere. Never at a Bank' by Brett King. This book...

What important truth do very few people agree with you on? 'Zero to One: Notes on start-ups and how to build the future' by Peter Thiel. This book is always in the top 10 books for founders to read...

This week's book was 'The Hard Things About Hard Things' by Ben Horowitz. For a business book, I found it quite refreshing. It covered a lot of areas that you wouldn't read about in conventional bu...

Book 40: 'Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell'. I recently came across the name Bill Campbell through some of the books I have read. Bill was an executi...

Finished and handed in our white paper on "The impact of Decentralised Finance (DeFi) on the crypto economy". Keen to see the final version and get it into the public domain.

It's fascinating to see how much Crypto and NFT's come up in social gatherings these days. What makes this space so exciting is that we still don't really know where we are in the hype cycle or wha...

This week's book was 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' written by Thomas Piketty. This was a long book that consisted of 700+ pages and read a little like a thesis. Needless to say, it wasn't t...

This week's book was 'The Making of Prince Of Persia' by Jordan Mechner. These are the journal entries of the author from 1985-1993. Although by age 18, Jordan Mechner had already fully developed h...

“I had by no means improved my fortune; but I had picked up some very ingenious acquaintance, whose conversations was of great advantage to me; and I had read considerably" ~ Benjamin Franklin on h...

Minted my first NFT on Opensea last night and stored it on the Etherum Blockchain. It was free to upload. However, I was charged a fee to transfer it to my metamask and then to put it up for sale.

This week I finished my 36th book of the year. Here are the last 12 that I have read. It's hard to say which book I enjoyed the most because they are all so different. But if I had to pick three it...

Bought my first NFT this week from a Japanese Artist (Nao Yoshihara). The first time around i wasn't so lucky. What I learned about trying to purchase NFT’s on Opensea is that if you don’t pay the ...

“As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.” This week's book was "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graber. In this book, the author argues that money wasn't inv...

I'm super excited to check out Polywork as one of the first early adopters. Little bit clunky so far but keen to see what value can be shared.