How to Measure Anything

The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Steve Blank The Discipline of Market Leaders - Fred Wiersema and Michael Treacy It's Not the Big that Eat the Small...It's the Fast that Eat the Slow - Jason Jennings Mastering The Complex Sale - Jeff Thull How To Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard

> How to measure anything. I think I found out about this book from Hacker News. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I need to. Seems very unique.

* Thinking Fast and Slow * The Selfish Gene * Probability: For the Enthusiastic Beginner * How to Measure Anything * Rationality: From AI to Zombies * Cynefin: Weaving Sense-making into the fabric of our world * Major works of Friedrich Nietzsche

My highlights from this year: 1. "How to Measure Anything" (Douglas Hubbard) Presents a few simple techniques (confidence intervals, Monte Carlo simulations, regression analysis, Bayes, etc) to help with decision-making. E.g., should we build this feature or spend the same money on marketing? I put it alongside "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (Daniel Kahneman), "Superforecasting" (Philip Tetlock), "The Art of Thinking Clearly" (Rolf Dobelli), etc. These books explain how our thinking is often flawed; "How to Measure Anything" gives you some tools to avoid flawed thinking. Note: if you already know the math (a lot of people on HN would), you might not get that much out of it. 2. "Why We Sleep" (Matthew Walker) As I read this book I kept thinking about all the people I knew who would benefit from it: family and friends whom I want to have healthy happy lives, managers who believe that they'll get more out of people by pushing them to work crazy hours… and lots of people who think they’ll get more out of themselves if they sleep less.…

1. "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries 2. "Insanely Simple" by Ken Segall 3. "How to Measure Anything" by Douglas W. Hubbard

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank Code by Charles Petzold Artificial Life - Steven Levy Time Reborn - Lee Smolin The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil Surfaces and Essences - Douglas Hofstadter How to Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard -- One of my favorites is How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenbreg I have that on my list of "to read real soon now". Sounds fascinating.

Got a new job in May so slowed me down, but got through around 8 this year. I'm a Lencioni fan: Death by Meeting -- Describes 3 types of meetings Getting Naked -- Describes how to consult I'm also a Marshall Goldsmith fan: What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Once you get beyond a Director level with some mistakes, read this book Mojo, How to Get It, How To Keep It - Another "look yourself in the mirror" book Also: 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell. A little prod to act more like a leader. Ready Player One -- Ernest Cline, Great Young Adult Book. Escapist fantasy. Every Shot Counts -- Mark Broady, Statistical Look At Golf, but has some smell of Kahnemann To Kill A Mockingbird -- Timeless Classic I Never Got To. Loved Atticus. I won't read a Watchman if it spoils my view of what Atticus was all about. Started But Not Finished: Business Dynamics Thinking -- Sterman (out of MIT). I need to take off work to read this 'cause it is so massive. Basically it is control theory applied to business modelling. However, I am convinced if somebody can apply these models, it really is the best competitive advantage. However, too people willing to stick with it.…

My full list of books, including reviews, is here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2015 From that list, my favorite ones were: The Four Steps to the Epiphany: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/827338560 Made to Stick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/897777811 How to Measure Anything: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/698402984 The Non-Designer's Design Book: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1170518622 Masters of Doom: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/899580915 The Martian: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1136330196 The Mistborn Trilogy: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1388373037

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank Neuromancer - William Gibson Predictable Revenue - Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand The Ultimate Question 2.0 - Fred Reichheld‎ The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil Moonshot! - John Sculley Zero To One - Peter Thiel Republic - Plato Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy, Fred Wiersema False Memory - Dean Koontz NOS4A2- Joe Hill Revival - Stephen King Barbarians At The Gate - John Helyar and Bryan Burrough Into Thin Air - John Krakauer How To Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard and any collection of the works of H.P. Lovecraft.