EXTENDED EDUCATION
What else you should know.
Tony put a lot of what he knows into the book, but there’s so much more to learn. Below are more books, articles, podcasts and studies recommended by Tony, the team, friends and mentors.
Tony Fadell on How to Build Culture-Shifting Products
Inspiring Innovation: The Bravery of Believing & Building the Impossible
The Tim Ferriss Show #590: Stories of Steve Jobs on “Vacation,” Product Design and Team Building, Good vs. Bad Assholes, Investing in Trends Before They Become Trends, The Hydrogen Economy, The Future of Batteries, and More
Marketing Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs, What is Truly Great Product Marketing, How The Best Product Teams Do Post-Mortems and Product Reviews & Is Product Art or Science, Data or Gut?
How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back
General Magic
The Next Billion: iPod inventor Tony Fadell – Finding the New “New” Thing
20VC: “The Father of The iPod” on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship to Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to be Coachable, Why VCs Must be More Direct & Why the First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
NFX: Tony Fadell on Learning to See, Telling Stories, & Being a Troublemaker
The Tim Ferriss Show #403: Tony Fadell — On Building the iPod, iPhone, Nest, and a Life of Curiosity
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives
Our Success
In Praise of Shadows
The Monk and the Riddle
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
Crisis Tales: Five Rules for Coping with Crises in Business, Politics, and Life