Garry Tan

Garry Tan

@garrytan

President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @Initialized—PM/designer/engineer who helps founders—YouTube creator—Mastodon @garrytan@sigmoid.social

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7 Book Recommendations by Garry Tan

  • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

    Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

    Kamal Ravikant

    "The bestselling self-published phenomenon that sold over 300,000 copies addresses our urgent need for self-love in the world today-now... more
    Garry Tan
    Garry Tan

    Kamal Ravikant's book "Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It" helped me massively, so one of the coolest parts about Clubhouse is being able to hang with him a few times a week. He asks the best questions that makes people think! Don't miss @blader's reading of The Egg here https://t.co/N6ng4KSMGu

    8:59 PM . 2 Feb 2021

  • How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

    How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

    Steve Stockman

    Newly updated and revised, How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck is a quick and easy guide that will make your video better instantly—... more
    Garry Tan
    Garry Tan

    Focus on intent, not a result. Intent is action and starts with a verb. A result is an adjective you want applied to yourself. Intent is actionable. Results are not. 👇 Excerpt from a good book “How to Shoot Video That Doesn’t Suck” https://t.co/8rnFfEJtLn

    2:57 PM . 23 Mar 2020

  • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

    Kamal Ravikant

    "The bestselling self-published phenomenon that sold over 300,000 copies addresses our urgent need for self-love in the world today-now... more
    Garry Tan

    This is a powerful idea. Our brain runs in familiar loops and patterns. But we can have some choice in what programs to run. Thanks @kamalravikant From his book “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on it” https://t.co/21ycD23IXU

    8:46 AM . 29 Jan 2020

  • High Growth Handbook

    Elad Gil

    Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google,... more
    Garry Tan

    Managers need to write README files so everyone can work better together 👌 First read about this in @eladgil’s High Growth Handbook https://t.co/1MkgBiPCUD

    6:05 PM . 8 Nov 2019

  • The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel A. Van der Kolk

    Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.
    Garry Tan

    The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma (Book Summary) Groundbreaking book any student of psychology, behavior, and their own psyche should pay attention to https://t.co/AvjDb0fzjo

    7:35 AM . 24 Oct 2019

  • Innovating Out of Crisis

    Shigetaka Komori

    "Japanese edition published in 2013 as Tamashii no Keiei by Toyo Keizai Shinposha, Tokyo, Japan."
    Garry Tan

    A CEO’s duty— “Unless something was done, Fujifilm would cease to exist. The technology and business would all come to nothing. The lives of more than 70K employees, and their families, were on the line.” https://t.co/VRN65VO3qN

    6:28 PM . 11 Sep 2019

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