Harley Finkelstein — Strategies from Shopify, the Future of Retail, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

High Output Management

Andy Grove

“one of the books that was suggested to me early on in my shopify journey was high output management which is the andy grove book”— Harley Finkelstein

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

“i think that horowitz is book hard things about hard things it's almost like the modern iteration of high output management”— Harley Finkelstein

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“one book that i recently reread that i know you're about that you know about is televised book anti-fragile”— Harley Finkelstein

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

“i'm actually reading the alchemist right now and i know in this book you you know well and it's it's amazing”— Harley Finkelstein

Socrates in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern (inferred)

“about a week and a half ago i read socrates in 90 minutes which is part of a series of books they're very fun very opinionated”— Tim Ferriss

The Elements of Style

Strunk and White

“there's a there's a book called the elements of style everything i learned in law school from a writing perspective the elements of style would have taught me already”— Harley Finkelstein

On Writing Well

William Zinsser

“there's a great book called on writing well by william zinser it's a classic it's a bit longer 300 and some odd pages”— Tim Ferriss

Draft No. 4

John McPhee

“a book that i have with me today called draft number four by john mcphee on the writing process”— Tim Ferriss

Dune

Frank Herbert

“i want to make one fiction recommendation to you and that is dune by frank herbert and i think it will go right up there”— Tim Ferriss

Insight Timer

Insight Timer (inferred)

“i had been historically using just insight timer and just doing like a 50 minute counter with a little bit of white noise”— Harley Finkelstein

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

“one of the best books i've read and i read it a couple years ago is shoe dog it's awesome for anyone who wants to who's building a company”— Harley Finkelstein

Open

Andre Agassi

“i read open which is the autobiography of andre agassi and it blew my mind it was so good so engrossing”— Tim Ferriss

The Third Door

Alex Banayan (inferred)

“there's a book called the third door i would recommend people check out as well which has some very funny stories and very effective advice”— Tim Ferriss

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

“people can check out finite and infinite games by cars as is also a good meditation on a lot of this stuff”— Tim Ferriss

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

“are you familiar with the jeffrey moore book crossing the chasm fundamentally if you were asking what build a business did for shopify it allowed us to cross the chasm”— Harley Finkelstein

Ruby on Rails

“he was using a new coding language at the time was incredibly contemporary called ruby on rails he was one of the core members of ruby on rails”— Harley Finkelstein

Google AdWords

Google

“i can simply bid on the keyword in that particular geography because no one else was doing it and google adwords was still fairly new”— Harley Finkelstein