I love reading books 📖. Here are some recommendations.

I sometimes get asked about what books I read. I've read books about technology, literature, business, philosophy, and just living life. Here are a few.

Currently Reading

  • Economix: how our economy works by Michael Goodwin

    It provides a comprehensive overview of economic history, theories, and concepts in an accessible and engaging format. It covers a wide range of topics, from the origins of economic thought to the Great Recession.

  • MEDDICC by Andy Whyte

    MEDDICC is a sales qualification framework used to assess and analyze opportunities in the context of business-to-business (B2B) sales. The acronym MEDDICC stands for Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria, Decision Process, Identify Pain, Champion, and Competition.


Economy & Science

  • Liderar sin molestar by Javier Moreno Zabala

    - Not everyone is willing to work without a passion or without a clear understanding about what exactly they are contributing to society
    - Mark Zuckerberg (Meta's CEO) and Tim Cook (Apple's CEO) agree on the importance of having a personal purpose connected to the need to be part of an organization
    - Today's youth believe that companies prioritize profits over employee well-being, demanding a different leadership approach characterized by transparency, humility, responsibility, and an unprecedented ethical and personal background
    - They believe that companies have an obligation to make work more meaningful beyond just enhancing shareholder returns, focusing on a social purpose and impacting positively on the world

  • Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella

    - The root of Microsoft was to democratize computing, making it available to everyone. Our initial mission was: "A computer on every desk and in every home."
    - An empathetic leader should be out in the world, getting to know people where they live, and seeing how the technology we create impacts their daily activities
    - The fact that governments do not encourage the use of technologies implies that there is still a trend of increasing inequality between the rich and the poor
    - Sum(Education + Innovation) x Intensity of technology use = economic growth
    - You don't have to reinvent the wheel; societies that quickly adopt new tools are more likely to be more productive

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki

    - A job is essentially a short-term solution to a long-term problem
    - Due to desire and fear, nearly everyone spends their life chasing a paycheck, salary increases, and secure jobs
    - Learn to use your emotions for thinking, but don't think with them
    - The rich acquire assets, while the poor and middle class acquire liabilities they consider assets

  • Design patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

  • Big data by Walter Sosa Escudero

  • Tiempo de reconstruirte by Javier Regueira

Philosophy & Life

  • Art of War by Sun Tzu

    - The greatest victory is that which requires no battle
    - Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak
    - A wise ruler does not reward people for skill in killing, but for skill in bringing peace
    - If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles
    - There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

  • Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge

    - In the quiet, you can find out who you are and what you should do
    - I think silence is like a vitamin. Just as we need vitamin D to get through the dark winter, we need silence to understand what's going on around us
    - Walking is an antidote to the speed of modern life; it's the permission to slow down, to think, and to appreciate
    - True freedom is not the freedom to do anything you want. It is the freedom to be able to deal with anything you need

  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

    - Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do
    - Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower
    - The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do
    - Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart
    - The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems

  • Mental Knots by Bernardo Stamateas

    Interesting reading about dealing with personal problems and just life in general. Talks about problems that we might face in our day to day and tries to give a different approach to them helping me tackle things differently.

Literature

  • Demian by Hermann Hesse

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Story of a staircase by Antonio Buero Vallejo

  • Diccionari per a ociosos by Joan Fuster

  • El verí del teatre by Rodolf Sirera