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2025 Reading List: My 52 Best Books of 2025
What a rewarding and fulfilling reading year this has been. I hit my goal of reading at least 50 pages a day, and along the way, I also permitted myself to stop reading books that didn’t hold my attention. The result is a 2025 reading list I’m proud of—one that spans history, business, philosophy, sports,…
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December Reading List: 4 Best Books I Read in December 2025
December gave me space to look back at what I’ve read over the past year and where that reading is leading me next. My December reading list includes Land’s Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It, Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, Hetty: The Fascinating Story of America’s Richest Woman,…
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November Reading List: 4 Best Books I Read in November 2025
The Thanksgiving holiday, like Christmas, gives me a natural pause to reflect on what I’ve read this year and where I want my reading to take me next. My November reading list includes Sam Walton: Made In America, The Red Bull Story: The Unbelievable Success of Dietrich Mateschitz and His Energy Drink Empire, It’s How…
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Work That Feels Like Play: What Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog Teaches About Ambition, Burnout, and Fatherhood
Finding work that feels like play is the holy grail of a career. Phil Knight returns to this idea again and again in Shoe Dog. To him, building something meaningful shouldn’t feel like a burden; it should feel alive. When work feels playful, it can feel like bliss. But at the same time, immersion can…
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How Nike Was Built: Truth-Telling, Shoe Dogs, and Phil Knight’s Calling
Phil Knight packs Shoe Dog with leadership and entrepreneurial lessons—most of them learned along the way. The themes I keep coming back to are simple: don’t micromanage, manufacture motivation, obsess over craft, tell the truth, contribute, and find your calling. For Knight, leadership starts with a counterintuitive discipline: don’t tell people how—tell them what, then…
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