Ultimate Guide to Managing Executive Assistants and Delegating Like a Pro — Sam Corcos (4K)

No Rules Rules

Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer (inferred)

“Some that really come up a lot are No Rules Rules, which is the book on Netflix culture”— Sam Corcos

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp (inferred)

“15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership is another one, which I know you're familiar with.”— Sam Corcos

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg (inferred)

“Another one that I know you're familiar with is Nonviolent Communication, which really should just be required reading for all people”— Sam Corcos

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande (inferred)

“Something like The Checklist Manifesto would be a really good choice for that, where it's just thinking about process.”— Sam Corcos

Loom

Loom (inferred)

“Loom is probably the most important business-enablement tool of the last five years, certainly in my experience.”— Sam Corcos

Notion

Notion (inferred)

“We also use Notion pretty religiously. Once you learn how to use the Notion database features, they're actually extremely powerful in the amount of leverage you can get”— Sam Corcos

ChatGPT

OpenAI (inferred)

“I use ChatGPT for that. So a recent example for the epistemic commons salon, I asked ChatGPT, I need five questions for this topic.”— Sam Corcos

Athena

Athena (inferred)

“I've always found the best way to do it to work with an agency. We work with Athena, they're an agency out of the Philippines.”— Sam Corcos

Calendly

Calendly (inferred)

“I use Calendly. I think that's something that you can just offload to technology.”— Sam Corcos

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday (inferred)

“I read Ryan Holiday's book, Trust Me, I'm Lying. That really frightened me about the state of the media and convinced me”— Sam Corcos

Factfulness

Hans Rosling (inferred)

“There's a really good book Factfulness, I don't know if you've heard of that one.”— Sam Corcos

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries (inferred)

“One of the books that I find myself frequently coming back to is The Lean Startup... It's a classic. I probably reread it every one to two years”— Sam Corcos

Superhuman

Superhuman (inferred)

“I use Superhuman as a tool. Hotkeys are probably the lowest hanging fruit for people to improve their productivity for almost no cost.”— Sam Corcos

Fast.ai course

fast.ai (inferred)

“a friend recommended the Fast.ai course and it was so easy. My goal was to create something that can recognize images of cats.”— Sam Corcos

How to Be Ultra Spiritual

JP Sears (inferred)

“There's a great video. It's an oldie, the one that kicked it all off, maybe, called How to Be Ultra Spiritual by JP Sears”— Tim Ferriss

Brodo bone broth

Brodo (inferred)

“And you can also get Brodo bone broth, which is spectacular, right next door, attached to Hearth.”— Tim Ferriss

Calvin Klein modal shirts

Calvin Klein (inferred)

“These are the Calvin Klein, modal is the material. They're super breathable. They don't get smelly. Yeah, these are great.”— Sam Corcos

Zoom

Zoom (inferred)

“there's just a setting on Zoom you can set at the organization level of just default record. And so we have that on”— Sam Corcos

Upwork

Upwork (inferred)

“So Upwork is a place where people often go to find them.”— Sam Corcos

Shepherd

Shepherd (inferred)

“There's also another agency that's on the cheaper side, which is Shepherd. My friend Nick is involved with them.”— Sam Corcos

RescueTime

RescueTime (inferred)

“RescueTime did a study that I think, most tech workers can't go more than six minutes without checking their communication tool.”— Sam Corcos

Twitter

Twitter (inferred)

“I used to have a problem with Twitter, and so I created some buffer, which is I don't have access to my own Twitter account.”— Sam Corcos

Instagram

Instagram (inferred)

“I don't have any social on my phone right now except for Instagram, because I use it to interact with a handful of my friends.”— Tim Ferriss

Waking Up

Sam Harris (inferred)

“I've tried doing meditation. I did the Sam Harris — Waking Up one. I don't think I'm particularly — I didn't notice any benefit”— Sam Corcos

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker (inferred)

“So it's a numeracy-enhanced version of Angels of Our Better Nature. Sam Corcos: Yeah, Better Angels of Our Nature.”— Tim Ferriss

Audible

Amazon (inferred)

“that's my hack for getting good book recommendations, and I add them to my wishlist on Audible.”— Sam Corcos

Goodreads

Goodreads (inferred)

“I keep track of all the books that I read on Goodreads.”— Sam Corcos

Figma

Figma (inferred)

“If you're in Figma, learn the hotkeys. If you're in Photoshop, learn the hotkeys.”— Sam Corcos

Photoshop

Adobe (inferred)

“If you're in Figma, learn the hotkeys. If you're in Photoshop, learn the hotkeys.”— Sam Corcos

LinkedIn

LinkedIn (inferred)

“things like almost nobody I know pays attention to their LinkedIn messages anymore. It's just cesspool.”— Sam Corcos

Asana

Asana (inferred)

“I recently interviewed Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook, co-founder of Asana, current CEO of Asana.”— Tim Ferriss

What You Do Is Who You Are

Ben Horowitz (inferred)

“I think this is Ben Horowitz's book, What You Do Is Who You Are. That is what it is.”— Sam Corcos

Founder Dynamics (podcast)

“it was a podcast. Founder Dynamics podcast. And the... synopsis... is that this is an episode that gives a feel for what it's like working with you”— Tim Ferriss

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James (inferred)

“that sounds a lot like Varieties of Religious Experience by — who's the author? William James.”— Sam Corcos

The Strength of Weak Ties

Mark Granovetter (inferred)

“There's a famous paper by Granovetter, I think written in the '70s called The Strength of Weak Ties.”— Sam Corcos