Summer is here and wow—it’s already been an action-packed year. Between scaling up our venture studio, Nobody Studios, moving to Manila, getting set up and settled time has simply flown.

Personally, I like to get away from everything and digitally detox—turn off my phone, internet and computer for a while for some quiet time. Think slow. Review what’s been done and come back with fresh ideas for how I want to tackle the future.

Taking time to read those blogs, books, and articles I’ve been meaning to. Listen to that podcast or simply be. Journal. Let thoughts float through my mind, and write a few down to remind myself for later. 

With that in mind, I wanted to share what will be on my holiday list. Maybe it’ll give you a bit of inspiration too, and set you up for the final months of 2022—and make it one of your best yet too!

Blogs

• The Reading list for Startups. This library of lessons captured by Alex Brogan focuses on founding businesses, idea generation, validation, fundraising, and much more. It’s a deep well of models, methods, and tools to work through for all you need to create, launch and build new ventures. Dig in.
  

• What is Web3 and why should you build in Web3? Cryptocurrency, NFTs and the underlining technologies will play a part in our future. Get educated about it.

Books

• Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres. Terres is one of my favorite business builders and friends. She lives these ideas in her own work, and help people build better products, cheaper, faster, sooner. Re-reading this again for the road ahead at Nobody.
  

• Venture Studios Demystified — How venture studios turn the elusive art of entrepreneurship into repeatable success by Shilpa Kannan.
  

• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall

Podcasts

• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt is one of my all-time favorite books. He has a new book out, The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists. This podcast is on Mastering the Art of Strategy with Gary Hamel. Two greats. One show.
  

• Lessons learned from Exiting and Acquisitions with Shawn Flynn. I met Shawn when he invited me onto his amazing podcast, The Silicon Valley Podcast. He’s built businesses all over the world. Worked with startups and entrepreneurs to ready their business for selling and what to do after it sold.
  

• Personal Board of Directors. While I take part in this, I always listen to it a few times afterwards. Melissa Perri and Gibson Biddle are two members of my personal board of directors. They always help with good advice and inspiration. Hope it helps you too.

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