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Books like Anything You Want
The best books like Anything You Want are Rework, The E-Myth Revisited, and Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers is about entrepreneurship, business philosophy, simplicity. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Rework
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
Rework is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's deliberately provocative argument against most conventional wisdom about building a business.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - The E-Myth Revisited
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Michael E. Gerber · Business
The E-Myth Revisited is Michael Gerber's diagnosis of why most small businesses fail — not because their owners lack technical skill, but because they confuse being good at a craft with knowing how to run a business.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The 4-Hour Workweek
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Timothy Ferriss · Self-help
The 4-Hour Workweek is Timothy Ferriss's argument that the standard model of working forty-plus hours a week until retirement is a bad deal, and that a better one is available right now for anyone willing to rethink how they work, earn, and live.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Authentic Leadership
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Bill George · Business
Authentic Leadership arrived in 2003 in the aftermath of Enron, WorldCom, and the first wave of corporate governance scandals.
Both dig into values.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
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Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
John Warrillow · Business
Built to Sell is John Warrillow's argument that every business owner — regardless of whether they ever intend to sell — should build their company as if they were going to.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup
Brad Feld and David Cohen · Business
Do More Faster is a collection of short essays and lessons drawn from the TechStars accelerator program, organized by Brad Feld and David Cohen, the program's co-founders.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston · Business
Founders at Work is Jessica Livingston's collection of interviews with the founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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Books like Anything You Want: quick answers
What are the best books like Anything You Want?
The best books like Anything You Want by Derek Sivers are Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Anything You Want, such as entrepreneurship, business philosophy, simplicity.
What should I read after Anything You Want?
A natural next read after Anything You Want is Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Both dig into entrepreneurship. Other strong choices are The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.
What books are similar to Anything You Want by Derek Sivers?
Anything You Want centers on entrepreneurship, business philosophy, simplicity. Books with a similar feel include Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee, Authentic Leadership by Bill George — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
