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The Barefoot Investor May 12, 2019

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The Barefoot Investor - by Scott Pape

'The only money guide you'll ever need'

A bushfire raged through Scott Pape's town and took everything form his family - their home, their farm, their sheep, and everything they owned. Their life's possessions now amounted to a charred pile of rubble. And just as everything seemed to be falling apart, Scott looked in the mirror and said 'I've got this'.

This book is all about helping you with your personal finances so that you too can look in the mirror and say 'I've got this'. The book takes us through different stages of life: Plant, Grow and Harvest. There are specific actions littered throughout the book and tasks you should complete if you want to truly control your own finances. It's well worth reading and putting into practice. The 'bucket' strategy of managing your money without budgeting is amazing!

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This Is Marketing May 05, 2019

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This Is Marketing - by Seth Godin

'You can't be seen until you learn to see'

Seth Godin is a marketing guru, and this book represents the culmination of decades upon decades of marketing lessons and advice. You won't find any scripts or templates, and you won't find anything scammy or short-term. This book is all about empathy, understanding and being a human (not typical advice you hear in most marketing books, but vital words of wisdom to consider before starting your next project).

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EXTRA: Presentation at The Entrepreneur Club May 02, 2019

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This extra episode is the recording from a presentation we recently did for The Entrepreneurs Club in Melbourne.

In our presentation we discussed the content we wished we knew 4 years ago when we first started trying side hustles.

We explore some of the best book concepts we've learned in the context of 'The Dip'.

Finding Your Dip (drawing from The Black Swan, Lean Start-up, The Click Moment)
Pursuing Your Dip (drawing on So Good They Can't Ignore You)
In The Dip (drawing on The War of Art and Perennial Seller)

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The Most Important Thing Apr 28, 2019

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The Most Important thing - by Howard Marks

'Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor'

Howard Marks is the Founder of Oaktree Capital Management, who hold US$122 billion in assets under management. This book is a compilation of all his investment philosophies, which can be applied to help you make better decisions when investing money, time or energy. There isn't any step-by-step instructions, just advice on ways to thinking to avoid the many pitfalls that most investors fall in. In this episode we cover:

Second level thinking
Understanding market efficiency,
Understanding, recognising and controlling risk,
Combatting the negative influences of human nature, and
Knowing what you don't know

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Factfulness Apr 20, 2019

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Factfulness - by Hans, Ola and Ana Rosling

'Ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think'

When we think about the world - poverty, violence, war, man made disasters, climate change and corruption - it seems that things are bad and feel like they're getting worse. Factfulness shows us this isn't the actually the case - we're the victim of many cognitive biases that cloud our judgement and that lead to an overdramatic worldview. This book shines a light on our 'mega misconceptions' and offers you a way to upgrade your thinking.

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Atomic Habits Apr 13, 2019

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Atomic Habits - by James Clear

'An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones'

Our outcomes in life aren't dictated by the big one-off things we do, but rather the small things we consistently do every day. The habits may seem insignificant on a day-to-day level, but when you look back in 10 or 20 years, you'll very clearly see the impacts of your positive or negative habits.

The author breaks up behaviour into four moments and what we need to do at each point in order to install a new habit:

CUE (Make it obvious)

CRAVING (Make it attractive)

RESPONSE (Make it easy)

REWARD (Make it satisfying)

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Lessons of History Apr 06, 2019

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History lets us see the patterns and make better decisions in the present moment. As we've progressed our human nature hasn't changed, but we've found new ways of achieving old means. This book gives us history's lessons through the lens of different filters.

In this episode we cover:

- Biology and history

- Character and history

- Morals and history

- Economics and history

- Socialism and history

- Growth and Decay of Civilisations

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Cal Newport: Career Progression and Consciously Disconnecting Apr 03, 2019

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Cal Newport is the author of some phenomenal books that work together to form a great trilogy:

So Good They Can't Ignore You highlights how skills are far more important than passion and emphasises the importance of developing 'career capital' in order to get a job that you allows you to enjoy what you do and make an impact
Deep Work shows us that the best way to develop that career capital is to block out chunks of uninterrupted time to focus and work hard on important projects and skills
Digital Minimalism sheds light on the dangers of being constantly connected and how carefully stepping away from technology overload can allow you to do more deep work, which allows you to develop career capital, which allows you to take that next step in your career.

You can find Cal at http://calnewport.com/

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Digital Minimalism Mar 30, 2019

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Digital Minimalism - by Cal Newport

'Choosing a focused life in a noisy world'

When Facebook started it was interesting, but didn't seem like something which we would spend a large amount of time. A college senior who set up an account in 2004 to look up class mates probably didn't predict that the average modern user would spend around 2 hours a day on social media and related messaging service. Similarly, an early adopter who picked up an iPhone in 2007 for its music features would be less enthusiastic if told he could expect to compulsively check it 85 times a day.

There is a war going on for your attention and the way to get it back is to embrace Digital Minimalism.

In this episode we include the best ideas from all of Cal Newport's closely related books, 'So Good They Can't Ignore You', 'Deep Work' and 'Digital Minimalism'.

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Life 3.0 Mar 23, 2019

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Life 3.0 - by Max Tegmark

'Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence'

Life has gradually grown more complex and interesting into 3 different tiers since the start of the Universe.

Life 1.0: Simple and biological. Can't design it's own software, and can't design it's own hardware - both are determined by DNA and change via evolution

Life 2.0: Cultural. Can survive and replicate. Can design its software like new skills - language, sports and professions. This flexibility has enabled humans to dominate the planet. While we can design our software, we can't design our hardware

Life 3.0: The birth of a technological species. It can design both its software and its own hardware - causing an intelligence explosion and real possibilities of Artificial General Intelligence.

This book explores the range of scenarios that might be spawned from our AI future.

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