Talk Like TED — Carmine Gallo
Persuasion is the mechanism that turns data into decisions. Nine communication secrets from the world’s most watched presentations — applied to compliance, analytics, and leadership.
Book Notes
Personal notes from books that have shaped my thinking. Each page covers the core idea, key mental models, speech pointers for building talks, practical takeaways, and quotes worth keeping.
Talent is Overrated — Geoff Colvin
Greatness is not a genetic lottery. The mechanics of world-class performance through Deliberate Practice — and why experience without a feedback loop makes you worse, not better.
Crossing the Chasm — Geoffrey Moore
Most innovations fail not from technical weakness but from a failure of market sequencing. The strategic playbook for navigating the gap between early adopters and the mainstream majority.
Steal the Show — Michael Port
Every high-stakes professional moment is a performance. The discipline of intentional preparation — objectives, stakes, rehearsal, and silence — applied to audit meetings, regulatory negotiations, and leadership.
Indistractable — Nir Eyal
Distraction is not a technology problem — it is a pain management problem. A four-part model for mastering internal triggers, scheduling your values, and building the habit of doing what you say you will do.
Hooked — Nir Eyal
Why do some products become habits while others get used once and abandoned? The Hook Model — Trigger, Action, Variable Reward, Investment — explains the architecture of compulsive behaviour and how to apply it to professional tools and communication.
What's Your Dream? — Simon Squibb
A guide to finding your purpose and building a business around it using the #GiveWithoutTake philosophy. You don’t need money, you need knowledge and action.
Range — David Epstein
The pressure to specialise early assumes the world works like chess — fixed rules, instant feedback, repeating patterns. But most complex domains are wicked, and the person who sampled widely, connected distant fields, and arrived late is the one who actually solves the problem — because their range is structurally required.