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Recommended by Tobi Lütke
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6 BOOKs-
High Output Management
“It's unapologetically almost a how to manual, but kind of deconstructs the world of business into first principles.”
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Influence
“The most mind-bending book you can imagine, because it essentially taught you always humans are flawed and influential.”
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Cited on the Tim Ferriss Show as an example of finding biographies of key innovators to understand paradigm shifts; Lütke uses Malcolm McLean's shipping container as a model for how a single primitive can collapse costs.
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The Courage to Be Disliked
“It is probably the best book I've read in last couple years.”
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Mindset
Lütke discusses Dweck's growth-versus-fixed-mindset distinction with Tim Ferriss as a shared vocabulary used at Shopify.
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr., E.B. White
“Most frequently gifted book because I like good writing.”