[andrew_wc_brown]

My Sivers, I've been reading about you for years. I love your story about how you scaled CD Baby with People instead of Algorithms. I think its of greater advice now in a startup world where every thought of every startup is that everything has to operate with a robot brain.

I lost my value in most books in 2010, We have lots of reads in common 2010 and my feeling about books is that lots fall under motivational porn and they provide instant gratification then things you can apply.

Seeing your list now I want to read Arnold Schwarzenegger book Total Recall and tempted to read Zero to One.

I would love to aspire to your level of success you had with CD Baby.

[simonebrunozzi]

I have not appreciated Zero to One much, and I know I might be in the minority here. My feeling is that most of that book is so specific, and so unique about Thiel's experience, that I found very little use in a normal life. My 0.02.

[thrav]

It’s definitely not advice for the average Joe or someone’s Mom and Pop. It’s about what it takes for a business to be monumental and transformative.

[dfxm12]

I lost my value in most books in 2010 ... my feeling about books is that lots fall under motivational porn and they provide instant gratification then things you can apply.

Plenty of great fiction exists, too, you know...