Barnaby Robson

Notes From

Summaries, insights and key takeaways from impactful reading and listening.

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Elon

Notes from, Nov 2025

How Elon Works

Notes from the Founders Podcast on Elon Musk

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Notes from, Nov 2025

Infinite vs. Finite Games: Rethinking AI Rivalry

Notes from Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game – and parallels to the AI “Race”

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Notes from, Nov 2025

Breakneck

Notes from the book Breakneck by Dan Wang.

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Philosophy, Apr 2025

Meditations

Notes from the book Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

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Productivity & Wisdom, Mar 2025

The Black Swan

The central idea of the book concerns our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations.

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Futurism, Feb 2025

The Beginning of Infinity

Notes from the book, ‘The Beginning of Infinity’ by David Deutsch.

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Philosophy, Dec 2024

Intellectuals

Notes from the book intellectuals by Paul Johnson

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Crypto, Dec 2024

The Anthology of Balaji

Notes from the book The Anthology of Balaji, by Eric Jorgenson

William Green

Investing & Economics, Nov 2024

Richer, Wiser, Happier

Notes from the book Richer, Wiser Happier – on what makes a great investor – by William Green

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Investing & Economics, Nov 2024

Same as ever: Timeless lessons on risk, opportunity and living a good life

Notes from the book by Morgan Housel on optimising risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life

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Investing & Economics, Jul 2024

Poor Charlie’s Almanac

Notes from the book Poor Charlie’s Almanac which sets out Charlie Munger’s speeches.

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Psychology, Jun 2024

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Notes from the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Extreme Ownership

Notes on the Navy SEAL secrets to leadership success and failure, blending combat lessons with actionable insights for life and business.

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Leadership, Apr 2024

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Ideology, Apr 2024

Atlas Shrugged (Who is John Galt?)

Notes from the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

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Leadership, Feb 2024

The Hard things about Hard Things

Notes form the book by Ben Horowitz on the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies.

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Productivity & Wisdom, Feb 2024

The Rational Optimist

Notes from the book. The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. The book discusses much including economics, history and evolution.

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Investing & Economics, Dec 2023

The Star Principle & making better investment decisions

Takeaways from the book the Star Principle by Richard Koch in which he shares the secrets of his success – and shows how you too can identify and enrich yourself from ‘Stars’.

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Leadership, Dec 2023

What you do is who you are

Notes from the book by Ben Horowitz on culture, with practical advice on building the culture you desire.

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Notes from, Aug 2023

Atomic Habits – 1% better every day

Notes from the book on habits and self improvement by James Clear

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Productivity & Wisdom, Feb 2023

Principles for dealing with the changing world order

Dalio’s Cycles: Understanding the Ebb and Flow of Empires, Debt, and Geopolitics and where we are in these cycles and what this means for the future

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Productivity & Wisdom, Jan 2023

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Key quotes from the book ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant’

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Productivity & Wisdom, Jan 2023

The Psychology of Money

Key notes from the book, the Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel.