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Thinking With Books

Oktay Yildiz

Reflections and ideas from books on business, learning, and philosophy — created from structured reading notes using AI.

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Episodes

16 episodes

  1. E16 - From Writing Code To Managing Engineers 56:43
  2. E15 - Why local efficiency kills company growth 47:25
  3. E14 - Stop mistaking busyness for results 42:48
  4. E13 - Business is poker, not chess 52:03
  5. E12 - The shift from maker to multiplier 46:13
  6. E11 - Why Isolated Success Kills Scaling Companies 47:58
  7. E10 - Build a Monopoly From Zero to One 57:13
  8. E09 - Managing Yourself for High Growth Startups 46:08
  9. E08 - Optimizing the Manager's Black Box 1:00:49
  10. E07 - Why brilliant startups fail under extreme uncertainty 35:58
  11. E06 - Why vulnerability must come before team trust 58:23
  12. E05 - Why Carrots and Sticks Backfire 43:06
  13. E04 - Scaling startups with a Beginner's Mind 38:27
  14. E03 - The Stoic Operating System of Marcus Aurelius 44:59
  15. E02 - How The Creative Act Built Slack 36:00
  16. E01 - Stop mistaking goals for strategy 53:09