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The Daily Laws by Robert Greene

In the Latticework, we've distilled, curated, and interconnected the 750+book summaries from The Rabbit Hole.

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The Biology of Investing

Nofsinger brings together scientific insights from a variety of fields to form a holistic view of the role of human biology in financial decision-making.

Traction (Book Summary)

As a startup, traction trumps everything. If you get that, everything else is downstream and easier to sell for and we created a framework called \"Bullseye\" to help founders figure out where to spend their time, money, and energy

Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

Summary Joe Coulombe shares how Trader Joe’s came to be and some of his core operating principles. Key Takeaways His first rule for new ideas was to always think outside the box, but always consider our customers and employees. I began the transition of Pronto into Trader Joe’s. I resigned at the end of 1988. […]

Play Nice But Win

Summary Play nice but win was the ethos Dell got from his parents. His dad was a successful orthodontist and his mom was in investing. They had high expectations but stressed you also needed to act well in order to truly succeed Key Takeaways Silver Lake helped take Dell private in 2013. They’d need to […]

The Natural Laws of Business by Richard Koch

Summary The author walks us through some of the key ideas in various disciplines and how we can better understand how to apply them in a business context. Key Takeaways Natural Selection Darwin coined the phrase “natural selection” as the “preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations…The slight advantage in one being…over […]

Birth of the Chaordic Age by Dee Hock

Summary Chaord comes from the combination of two words: chaos and order. This exemplifies the behavior of any self-governing organism, organization, or system which harmoniously blends characteristics of order and chaos; patterned in a way dominated by neither chaos or order; characteristic of the fundamental organizing principles and nature Key Takeaways Community Organizations moving from […]

The Lucifer Principle

Summary Bloom argues that the individual is merely a “cell” within the larger group and that these groups are the primary units of selection no genes and human psychology. Hierarchy is front and center in Bloom’s understanding of the world. “This book is about the social body in which we are the unwitting cells. It […]

Buddha Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom

Summary Buddha Brain takes ancient Buddhist practices and scientific data to show us how to strengthen our brain in order to have stronger relationships and an overall happier and more fulfilling life. Key Takeaways Thoughts literally shape our brain. With this knowledge, be mindful of your thoughts as over time they will be ingrained If brain […]