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The Entrepreneur Mind summary  Who should read this:  “Whether you are thinking of starting a business, celebrating your first year in business, or approaching ten years in business, you’ll find tremendous value in reading this book,” Johnson writes. In other words, any entrepreneur looking for a mentor will find helpful tips here. Elevator pitch:  Entrepreneurship can be taught, and Kevin D. Johnson wants to teach it. This book includes 100 easily digestible lessons in strategy, people, finance, marketing and leadership, including lots of anecdotes from his own experience. Author:  Thirty-three-year-old Kevin D. Johnson is a serial entrepreneur and the president of Johnson Media Inc., a multimillion-dollar marketing and communications company. Strategy  1. Think big:  Failing to reach your potential is a lesser-known, lesser-understood type of business failure. Entrepreneurs fail to think big because they are limited by their environment or the...

Skin in the game summary   Great ideas around skin in the game and having some stake in the advice you’re getting, but I didn’t find this book as mind blowing as Antifragile or Black Swan. Still worth a read, though. Summary Notes Book 1: Introduction Skin in the Game is about four topics in one: a)  uncertainty and the reliability of knowledge  (both practical and scientific, assuming there is a difference), or in less polite words bull***t detection, b)  symmetry in human affairs, that is, fairness, justice, responsibility, and reciprocity,  c)  information sharing in transactions,  and d)  rationality in complex systems and in the real world.  That these four cannot be disentangled is something that is obvious when one has…skin in the game. To emit a Yogiberrism,  in academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is. If you have the rewards, you must also get...