Books that shaped how I build
The ideas I keep coming back to, and how I’ve applied them.
A timeless framework for what makes a competitive edge durable, beyond trendy business fads.
True breakthroughs come from creating new markets, not battling in old ones.
Founders still have to sell before they have teams or polished pitches.
How I applied it: The playbook I wish I’d had building Insurmi, where I led enterprise sales to carriers myself.
Category design: create the space you lead instead of scrapping for share.
Investors buy the story as much as the numbers.
Treat startups as experiments with a build-measure-learn loop.
How I applied it: The basis for the experiment framework I built at Guidely.
Spot inflection points, the rare moments when tech or markets shift.
Gifted to me by my mom, Pinky. It sparked real introspection about purpose and presence.
Systems over goals; tiny improvements compound.
How I applied it: I started with 30 minutes of exercise, 3 days a week. Now it’s 1 hour, 6 days a week, without it feeling like a struggle.
Visualization and gratitude as daily practices that make you more intentional.
Empathy and patience as leadership superpowers under crisis.
A provocative lens on the assumptions baked into modern political thought.
A mental gym for founders: practical advice and big-picture thinking.