{"id":33,"date":"2015-09-17T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morsello.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2015-11-21T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T18:23:35","slug":"book-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/book-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Book Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/ten-most-important-books-expand-your-brain-james-altucher?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-recommended_articles-225-null&amp;midToken=AQHJxovbrTAPug&amp;fromEmail=fromEmail&amp;ut=1eb9yDBLEKSmU1\">this article<\/a> on which books are worth reading. \u00a0The premise is that nobody should be reading &#8220;business card books&#8221; which tout the author&#8217;s credibility, books that aren&#8217;t long enough to be worth a book, and actually good books.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree that even most business books fall neatly into one of these categories, but I do appreciate the list of &#8220;good books&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMASTERY\u201d by Robert Greene<br \/>\n\u201cBOLD\u201d by Peter Diamondis and Steven Kotler<br \/>\n\u201cOUTLIERS\u201d by Malcolm Gladwell<br \/>\n\u201cWHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM\u201d by Steven Johnson<br \/>\n\u201cMAN\u2019S SEARCH FOR MEANING\u201d by Victor Frankl<br \/>\n\u201cBORN STANDING UP\u201d by Steve Martin<br \/>\n\u201cZERO TO ONE\u201d by Peter Thiel<br \/>\n\u201cQUIET\u201d by Susan Cain<br \/>\n\u201cANTIFRAGILE\u201d by Nassim Taleb<br \/>\n\u201cMINDSET\u201d by Carol Dweck<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting with Nassim Taleb&#8217;s book: he seems to have dozens of quotable reference in every book he&#8217;s written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I appreciated this article on which books are worth reading. \u00a0The premise is that nobody should be reading &#8220;business card books&#8221; which tout the author&#8217;s credibility, books that aren&#8217;t long enough to be worth a book, and actually good books. I don&#8217;t agree that even most business books fall neatly into one of these categories,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/17\/book-reading-list\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Business Book Reading List&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}