In his book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, former Apple employee and co-creator of the iPhone and iPod Tony Fadell shares lessons learned and insights for becoming more creative. He also shared a reading list of his favourite books and articles that have enhanced his creativity. He writes
“Here are some of the books and articles that have helped me, my friends, and mentors, in no particular order:”
- Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, Adam Grant
- In Praise of Shadows, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
- The Monk and the Riddle, Randy Komisar
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker
- The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture, Scott Belsky
- The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness, Steven Levy
- Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, David Kelley and Tom Kelley
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
- Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups, Ali Tamaseb
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
- Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning, Tom Vanderbilt
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
- How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, Annie Duke
- The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t, Robert I. Sutton
- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, Brian Grazer
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now, Meg Jay
- Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, James Suzman
- Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life, Lanny J. Davis
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Consumers, Geoffrey Moore
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, United States Office of Strategic Services, 1944 ()
- Read the Face: Face Reading for Success in Your Career, Relationships, and Health, Eric Standop
- Architect behind Googleplex now says it’s ‘dangerous’ to work at such a posh office, Bobby Allyn, NPR
- Why and how do founding entrepreneurs bond with their ventures? Neural correlates of entrepreneurial and parental bonding,” Tom Lahti, Marja-Liisa Halko, Necmi Karagozoglu, and Joakim Wincent. Journal of Business Venturing 34, no. 2 (2019): 368–88.
All the Best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.
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