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Buy from Amazon Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work by Steven Pressfield is a book about the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice, written from the point of view of the author’s personal experiences and struggles. It centers around concepts like self-doubt, fear, resistance, how the amateur faces them, and how she must face them to become a professional. From the book: “The difference lies in the way the professional acts in the face of fear. Read more...

Buy from Amazon Hassan Osman has been managing virtual teams for a living for over ten years. In Influencing Virtual Teams, he shares his experience in the form of 17 tactics. The value of these tactics lies not on their novelty, but in that they have been successfully applied over the years to real projects. Although the book is titled “Influencing Virtual Teams”, the tactics on this book can be also applied successfuly to local teams. Read more...

In pasts months, a number of startups have closed1. These companies raised money, launched good products, gained attention from the press… and then closed. It’s not my intention to judge the decisions the founders of these startups made. Their closing is sad news. But… what happened? Even with the limited information available publicly, there are some lessons that can be learned by trying to understand the business models of some of them. Read more...

The definition of a Startup, according to Paul Graham: A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem. Read more...

Emailcharter is a page with ten short and practical rules to better email writing. As stated in the first rule, the underlying principle is to respect recipient’s time: The onus is on you to minimize the time your email will take to process. I discovered EmailCharter while listening to Tim Ferris’ conversation with Maria Popova. (Maria Popova is the sole author of Brain Pickings, a page that gets more than 5 million readers per month. Read more...