I'm pretty much a computer geek. Over the years, I have collected (and continue to collect) a bunch of resources that I feel has helped improve me in different areas of my life. Some of these may be useful to you to and I encourage you to give them a try. They are mostly broken down into tools/apps, reading/listening/watching materials.
This is not part of an affiliate program or anything. I will disclose that in the future if I decide to get into those. But I just wanted to share resources that I continue to rely on that you might find useful.
If you have a couple of resources that you would like to share, feel free to do so in the recommendation section below. This is a list that will continue to evolve.
BOOKS
Self-Development & Productivity
- Angela Duckworth - Grit -The Power Of Passion And Perseverance
- Brendon Burchard - High Performance Habits
- Brian Tracy - Eat That Frog
- Brian Tracy - No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline
- Brian Tracy - Reinvention
- Brian Tracy - The Science Of Self Confidence
- Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends And Influence People
- Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence
- Daniel Goleman - Working With Emotional Intelligence
- Darren Hardy - Compound Effect
- David Allen - Getting Things Done
- Gary John Bishop - Unf#ck Yourself
- Greg McKeown - Essentialism
- Jason Selk - Organize Tomorrow Today
- Ken Segall - Insanely Simple
- Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
- Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers
- Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
- Mark Manson - The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F#ck
- Napoleon Hill - Outwitting the Devil
- Napoleon Hill - The Law Of Success
- Napoleon Hill - Think And Grow Rich
- Robert Greene - 48 Laws Of Power
- Robert Greene - Mastery
- Robert Greene - The Laws of Human Nature
- Simon Sinek - Find Your Why
- Simon Sinek - Start With Why
- Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
- Steven Pressfield - The War of Art
- Viktor E Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning
Business
- Brad Stone - The Upstarts
- Brian Tracey - The Psychology Of Selling
- Chris Guillebeau - Side Hustle; From Idea to Income in 27 Days
- Chris Guillebeau - The $100 Startup
- Daymond John, Daniel Paisner - The Power of Broke
- Ed Catmull - Creativity, Inc
- Eric Ries - The Lean Startup
- Gary Vaynerchuk - The Thank You Economy
- Gary Vaynerchuk - Crush It
- Gary Vaynerchuk - Crushing It!
- Jason Fried - Rework
- Jim Collins - Good to Great
- Josh Linkner - Disciplined Dreaming
- Kristen Meinzer - So You Want To Start A Podcast
- Michael Gerber - The E-Myth Revisited
- Michael Gerber - The Most Successful Small Business in the World
- Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Peter Drucker - The Drucker Lectures
- Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive
- Peter Thiel - Zero To One
- Robert Kiyosaki - Cashflow Quadrant
- Robert Kiyosaki - Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- Seth Godin - Permission Marketing
- Thomas Stanley - The Millionaire Mind
- Thomas Stanley - The Millionaire Next Door
- Tony Hsieh - Delivering Happiness
- W. Chan Kim - Blue Ocean Strategy
- Ken Segall - Insanely Simple
Writing
- Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
- Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
- Ann Handley - Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
PODCASTS
- Build Your Tribe
- Entrepreneurs on Fire
- Lead to Win
- Side Hustle School
- The $100 MBA Show
- The Smart Passive Income Podcast
- Afrobility: Africa Tech & Business
APPS
Productivity
- Obsidian - Open source note-taking, mind mapping, project management tool. It's like Evernote but has a ton of plugins developed by it's ever-growing community and its open-source.
- LibreOffice - Open source alternative to Microsoft Office apps specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Thunderbird - Open source alternative to Microsoft Office Outlook
- Bitwarden - Open source password manager. Available on all my devices
Podcasting
- Audacity - Open-source digital audio editor. Use it to record my vocals, edit and process them.
- FL Studio - Proprietary Digital Audio Workstation or DAW for short. Used for making music/jingles/soundfx.
- Anchor.Fm
- Afripods
Graphics
- GIMP - It's basically an open source Photoshop alternative that you can download and install on your computer
- InkScape - It's the open source equivalent to Illustrator
- Kdenlive - A small but powerful open source video editor.
