Category: Business / Finance

Rating: 8.5/10. This book tells you how to negotiate more effectively. A common negotiating mistake is to use positional negotiation, which is each side picking an arbitrary position (eg: buy the car for $5000), and going back and forth until you’re tired and agree, or you both walk out. Positional negotiation is highly arbitrary, and…

Rating: 7.6/10. This is the second book I read by this author, after Black Swan. An antifragile object is something that becomes stronger when stress is applied (up to a certain point). To make it antifragile, it should be exposed to positive black swan events, where it will gain a lot from randomness, and have…

Rating: 6.5/10. Book about how to manage a small business, basically avoid doing all the work in your business and get other people to do it for you in a scalable way, run it as if you were running a franchise. The ideas make sense, but when it comes to specifics, the book doesn’t really…