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Rob Snyder

Author of The Power of Pull and writer of the newsletter The Physics of Startups; has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in annual revenue.

8 books on the record · 8 Aug 2025 – 25 Oct 2026

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander

my favorite one is the four-volume Nature of Order series by Christopher Alexander. It's a book on architecture, series of books on architecture. Best thing ever.

on a podcast · 25 Oct 2026 · Report

liked it

The Heart of Innovation by Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman

in the words of a book of Heart of Innovation, a really good book

on YouTube · 26 Jun 2026 · Report

recommends it

Shape Up by Ryan Singer

I'd recommend reading Shape Up chapter 2. I think it's great.

on YouTube · 25 Apr 2026 · Report

recommends it

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

I would recommend reading Starting Strength if you're in this kind of situation

on YouTube · 25 Apr 2026 · Report

recommends it

The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox

The Goal is a must-read book. It is a business fiction book

on YouTube · 7 Nov 2025 · Report

recommends it

Hypergrowth by David Cancel

His book Hypergrowth is like required reading for thinking about how to build products and how to structure engineering teams and how to run engineering teams.

on YouTube · 12 Sep 2025 · Report

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Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount

There's one called Fanatical Prospecting, which is just literally telling you prospect all, like do outbound all the time. And it's like a book that just kind of repeats that. Great book, just telling you the basics and just like go do it.

on YouTube · 8 Aug 2025 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.