Recommended

Here is a list of resources I regularly recommend.

Learning

• Growth mindset: explainer video
• Farnam Street: summaries of mental models and concepts
• Wait but Why: entertaining and highly informative essays on various topics
• The school of life: explainer videos about emotional intelligence
• Kurzgesagt: explainer videos about science
• CPG Grey: explainer videos mostly on countries and politics
• Thinking fast and slow: how brains and their biases work

Life

• Stoic philosophy: how to live the Good Life
• Love: talk by Alain de Botton
• Relationships: talk by Esther Perel on the paradox of wanting to want (exploring, adventure) and wanting to have (safety, security)
• Parenting: book by Jesper Juul that mirrors my understanding of leadership in business in the context of parenting — making the role of parenting more akin to coaching and less like supervising.
• Nonviolent Communication: a game-changer for relationships of any kind (audiobook by Marshall Rosenberg, Set of core nonviolent commitments by Miki Kashtan)

Leadership

• Motivation: TED talk by Daniel Pink
• Vulnerability: TED talk by Brené Brown
• Purpose: TED talk by Simon Sinek
• Leadership: talk by Simon Sinek
• Responsibility Process: how to take responsibility instead of being responsible (book by Christopher Avery)

Organizations

• Reinventing Organizations: organizational paradigms (talk by Frederic Laloux)
• BetaCodex: an org structure for a purpose-driven network organization (example of a concrete implementation)
• Steward Ownership: a model where ownership stays within the company and profit serves the company’s purpose, not just shareholders
• Scrum & Kanban: a great intro to the concepts of Scrum and Kanban and how you can use them to work within a team

Events

• Alptitude: a week in the French Alps for purpose-driven founders or movement makers
• Agile Lean Europe: open space unconference by and for the agile and lean community in Europe. It takes place in a different city each year.