The input side
Book Notes
Much of this website is outputs of my production. Over the years, many folks have asked me about what my inputs are and the sources of my ideas and thoughts. You'll notice there's no theme or pattern, they're very varied. But below are some of the excerpts and highlights taken directly from my Kindle as I read content. 12,231 highlights, 61 books, kept in Readwise since February 2020.
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The shelf
Newest markup first. Books imported in bulk carry their import date, so the order is roughly, not exactly, the order I read them.
- The 38 Letters From J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine
- The Courage to Be Disliked
- Trump
- $100M Leads
- The 5 Types of Wealth
- An Insider's Guide to Physician Engagement
- Analog
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- The Art and Business of Online Writing
- Aesop's Fables
- Baburnama
- How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement
- Meditations
- Psycho-Cybernetics
- Building a StoryBrand
- Scientific Advertising
- Essentialism
- Never Split the Difference
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Atomic Habits
- Think and Grow Rich!
- Building a Second Brain _ a Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
- Copywriting Secrets_ How Everyone Can Use the Power of Words to Get More Clicks, Sales and Profits . . . No Matter What You Sell or Who You Sell It To!-Author Academy Elite
- The PARA Method
- The Alchemist
- The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes
- $100M Offers
- $100M Offers
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- Exhalation
- Deep Medicine
- Propaganda & Persuasion
- Global Catastrophes and Trends
- How Propaganda Works
- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Existentialism Is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre 1946
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- How to Lie With Statistics
- Moonwalking With Einstein
- Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Stranger
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- Heart
- Stakeholder Capitalism
- Leadership
- Numbers Don't Lie
- The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Growth
- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- What to Do When You're Dating a Jew
- The Twelve Caesars
- Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
- Global Catastrophes and Trends
- The Topeka School
- Oil - A Beginner's Guide 2nd Edition
- Cicero
- Plato
- Propaganda & Persuasion
Beyond books
The articles, essays and episodes I marked up most heavily.
- 100 Tips I Learned Growi...
- My Best Sales Advice From Selling $100's of Millions | Ep 738
- 24 Controversial Truths About Success and Failure
- 24 Controversial Truths About Success and Failure (Modern Wisdom With Chris Williamson) | Ep 752
- Complete Guide to Freelance Web Development
- My Best Sales Advice From Selling $100's of Millions
- #329 Charlie Munger
- #324 John D. Rockefeller
- #275 Paul Graham
- #405 How Rockefeller Worked
- Entrepreneurship Masterclass — How to Make $10k - $1M Per Month - Daniel Priestley
- 'Tell People Your Goals!' — the Secret to Accomplishing Anything - Cliff Weitzman
A year of marking things up
674 highlights over 57 days.
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Snapshot taken 2 Aug 2026. The output side lives in writing.