The Messy Middle

The Messy Middle

By
Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky
2018 • 416 pages

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35 books

Startup 101

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SteFounder
The mom test
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Company of One
Digital Minimalism
Rework
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited

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44 books

Work Reading - Technology

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xunairaSupporter
Obviously Awesome
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager
Work Rules!
Steal Like an Artist

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80 books

Business

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Jer
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chaos Monkeys
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Lean Impact

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19 books

Career

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Jer
What Color is Your Parachute? 2017
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life
The Messy Middle
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

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34 books

Entrepreneurship

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Jer
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chaos Monkeys
The Startup Community Way: How to Build an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem That Thrives
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
Start Within: How to Sell Your Idea, Overcome Roadblocks, And Love Your Job

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30 books

Unfinished

sms
Sarah Schumacher
Maximize Your Potential
The Accidental Creative
Good to Great
The Architecture of Happiness
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Power of Now

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322 books

E Library

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Zaceij
Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing
7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher
A People's History of the United States
A Theory of Everything
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Ages of Discord

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19 books

Manas Saloi 2019 List

aamna
Aamna
Let's Talk Money
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
The CEO Next Door
The Messy Middle
Negotiating the impossible

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34 books

Backburner

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Veronica
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
A Fire Upon the Deep
The Brand
Men Explain Things to Me
Tails of the Apocalypse
Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert's Guide to Making Connections That Count

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26 books

Non Fiction

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Veronica
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Grit : The Power of Passion and Perseverance
You are not a gadget
Belle's Best Bits: A London Call Girl Reveals Her Favourite Adventures
Spook

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358 books

Dl

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Silas Marner
Iacocca
Open
Decoded
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Titan
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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117 books

Business

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You Can Negotiate Anything
The Charisma Myth
Anything You Want
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
How we decide
Thinking in systems : a primer
Own the Room

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Owned

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DT
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
Nick and Charlie
Geography Club

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121 books

Audiobook

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What If It's Us
The Lightning Thief
Swimming in the Dark
How to Be Fine
Out of the Blue
Café Con Lychee

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34 books

Startup World

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Siddhartha Golu
Profit First
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Slicing Pie
Founders at Work
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
The Mom Test

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8 books

Book Club

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Jay Hoffmann
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
Eloquent JavaScript
Accessibility for Everyone
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

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276 books

Business

batalla
Mariano
High Output Management
What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms
Art of Managing Professional Services, The: Insights from Leaders of the World's Top Firms
An Everyone Culture
Competing Against Luck
The Future of the Professions

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154 books

Business

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Daan Zeeuwe
Trillion Dollar Coach
The Introvert Entrepreneur
The Making of a Manager
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
When
Leaders Eat Last
The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition

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365 books

Blinkist

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Daan Zeeuwe
Kaizen
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Lives of the Stoics
A Handbook for New Stoics
Making Sense

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83 books

Leadership

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Patrik Gustafsson
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The DevOps Handbook

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460 books

2024

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
Strangers to Ourselves
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
In an Unspoken Voice

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44 books

Biz

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Start Small, Stay Small
10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less
The Embedded Entrepreneur
UNSCRIPTED
The Psychology of Money

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135 books

Learn

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Rocket Surgery Made Easy
Free play
The Myth of Sisyphus
Planets in Transit: Life Cycles for Living
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

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137 books

Life

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The Secret Teachings of All Ages
In an Unspoken Voice
Free play
Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing
The Myth of Sisyphus
Tao Te Ching
The Woman in Me

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68 books

On Pause

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The Myth of Sisyphus
Planets in Transit: Life Cycles for Living
Beyond Feelings: A Guide to Critical Thinking
The Book of Air: The Art of Paying Attention
About Face 3
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