We have a Slack channel with like 200+ founders who are parents in it. I just did a quick search and here are two of the channels they recommend in there:
APE stands for "Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur" and I always felt like he made the process really approachable.
In my opinion, there were one or two sections of the book that got a little too nitty gritty (like literally giving click-by-click instructions for certain steps).
But overall, if you're looking for one great book to just orient yourself, this is it.
Not sure if this is helpful, but a friend fed this conversation through ChatGPT and had it summarize for easier reading:
-The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy -Bigger by Marc Levinson
-The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
-Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson
-Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White
-The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester
-Edison by Edmund Morris
-Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
-The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts
-Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
-The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
-The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
-Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael S. Malone
-The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
-The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
-Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr.
-The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
-Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Eric H. Chaney
-Early Electrical Communication by A. F. Marland
-Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus P. Thompson
-Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications by J. J. Fahie
-The History and Present State of Electricity by Andrew Ure
Maybe this is different depending on what industry you're in - but for a lot of people in my circle (tech/startup media), the incredible thing about Twitter is that you can DM almost anyone.
I've connected with so many people there.
There's also a culture of DMing there, where your messages have a higher likelihood of getting replied to than other places like LinkedIn.
I didn't use DMs for years. And also wasn't a big Twitter person at all. So I get it. But that all changed a few years ago, and now, I'm tellin ya' - the only feature that matters there is the DMs.
Adobe's experimental Photoshop features have been a game-changer for me. We write a lot of stories on our blog profiling successful founders.
But a lot of them don't have high quality horizontal photos I can use as a blog header.
They've got great vertical photos. But getting horizontal that worked well with LI/Twitter preview was a huge drag. Now, I can just take their vertical photos, and use generative fill to extend the canvas out to horizontal.
Super easy, and very nice, high-quality output. It's wild.
I keep saying it's not actually a Twitter alternative - that's a marketing ploy. But Threads doesn't have DMs (by far the most important Twitter feature for any user of that platform).
The whole Twitter thing is just PR.
To me, the real story is the use of ActivityPub - the decentralized protocol that powers Mastadon.
I feel like I haven't been able to nail down whether Threads uses it (I've seen sources say definitely yes, and definitely no) but to me, THAT would be the only reason to launch this thing.
Not to eat Twitter's lunch, but to be the first major player into DeSo
Loved this breakdown. Curious what other people think though - seems kind of like "timing the market," but Engle's track record also speaks for itself.
Not sure if this is what you're interested in, but a friend recently recommended reading these two in tandem:
"The Image" by David Boorstin, and "Palo Alto" by Malcom Harris
Both offer views on the evolution of technology, but from authors with somewhat opposing viewpoints.
"The Image" is particularly interesting to read today, because it was written in 1962, with the advent of TV, and back then one of the core concerns was edited video and how it was becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate fact from fiction.
Interesting overlap with some of the concerns around LLMs