Book: Anything You Want, Derek Sivers

Anything You Want: Build Your Perfect World

In Anything You Want, Derek Sivers shares lessons from building CD Baby into a customer-obsessed, unconventional company. It’s a manifesto for designing work around happiness, creativity, and personal philosophy.

Build the business that builds the life you want.

Book: Shoe Dog, Phil Knight

Shoe Dog: Building, Competing, and Creating with Purpose

What does it really mean to compete, to negotiate, to build culture—and to fail well? In this post, Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog offers an unfiltered look at work as play, business as craft, and ambition as something bigger than money.

The goal isn’t just to survive the game. It’s to create something that helps others live more fully.