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The books I keep recommending on negotiation, money, history and building companies, plus Desi Nordic, my YouTube channel of conversations with people living in Sweden.
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Desi Nordic
My YouTube channel: cultural talks with people living in Sweden.
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Salary After Tax in Sweden 2026: How Much Do You Get? | Payslip & Employer Cost Explained
How Swedish tax works, from gross salary to payslip to what your employer actually pays. Useful for anyone moving to or working in Sweden.
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Everything I recommend
Financial Intelligence
Karen Berman & Joe Knight
Reading financial statements and knowing what the numbers really mean, written for people outside finance.
FinanceBusiness
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
A practical system for automating savings, investing and spending on what matters.
Personal finance
Mastery
Robert Greene
How masters are made: long apprenticeship, finding mentors and deep practice, drawn from the lives of historical figures.
CraftCareer
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Negotiation lessons from a former FBI hostage negotiator: tactical empathy, labelling and calibrated questions.
NegotiationSales
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A brief history of humankind, and the shared stories that let people cooperate at scale.
HistorySociety
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Why decision-makers should bear the consequences of their decisions, and how that shapes trust and risk.
RiskDecision-making
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Historical case studies on how power is gained, kept and lost, and how to recognise those dynamics at work.
PowerStrategy
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Naval Ravikant's thinking on building wealth through leverage and specific knowledge, and on happiness.
WealthMindset
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
How Jeff Bezos built Amazon: customer obsession, long-term bets and relentless execution.
FoundersStrategy
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
A novel about a failing plant that teaches the theory of constraints: find the bottleneck and fix it first.
OperationsSystems