Happy new year friends!
Happy new year friends!
Eight has always been a lucky number for me and most of the Rayburg family. When I was younger I wore it on my baseball jersey, now I thought it would be fun to try something different. Here’s 8 quotes and books that I enjoyed this past year. Most of them were not written/said in 2021 but that's when I found them. Also threw in some trends to keep an eye on in 2022… Send me interesting books, articles, tweets, etc at jake@rayburgreads.com. Check out my reading list at www.rayburgreads.com
"The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you." - Paul Graham
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” - Richard P. Feynman
“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” - Alice Walker
“Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions” - Elizabeth king
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” - Voltaire
“Mans most distinctive quality is our singular ability to look down on reality from a higher perspective and synthesize an understanding of it” - Ray Dalio
“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.” - Daniel Kahneman
“I don’t think about optimism or pessimism - fuck that we’re gonna get it done” - Elon Musk
Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkerman
Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
Empire State of Mind - Zach O’Malley Greenburg
The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson
The Innovators - Walter Isaacson
Note: The green winners I like more than the yellow!