Wisebooks

Free database of books recommended by world-class people

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Free database of books recommended by world-class people

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Wisebooks is a free database of book recommendations from world-class people across various disciplines, aimed at helping you read more and become better at whatever you want to do. Subscribe for bite-sized book recommendations in your inbox once a week!

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How do you pick the people to get recommendations from? What are some of your personal faves? @jennytkim

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8yr ago

Wisebooks

Maker

Hey @abadesi thanks so much for your interest!! 1. How do you pick the people to get recommendations from? A lot of the people are our own role models- we're trying to feature many impressive females as we've personally had a hard time finding female models vs males. We've also collected many people suggestions from friends and via the contact form on our website. Let us know if you have any suggestions! :) 2. What are some of your personal faves? Mine - Sophia Amoruso, Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama Christine (my co-founder) - Yuval Noah Harari, Dara Khosrowshahi

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8yr ago

@jennytkim I'm asking out of pure curiosity cause this part caught my attention: "we're trying to feature many impressive females as we've personally had a hard time finding female models vs males." Why would one try to find specifically *female* role models? Of course it's ok to have a female role model, just as it it having a male role model, what I don't understand is why would you search for a female specifically to be your role model instead of naturally coming to admire admirable people? What role does gender/sex play in such things?

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8yr ago

Wisebooks

Maker

@anna_0x Hey Anna, thanks for your question! You're right in saying that we should just admire admirable people overall, but especially in male-dominated fields, I think women models provide confidence for other aspiring women. In my experiences working in entrepreneurship & tech, there have been many times where I've felt insecure as a woman and so, seeing women (compared to men) excel in these fields is particularly inspiring. I know many other women have shared these sentiments - my friends, the stories of sexual harassment issues we hear about in media, etc. There are many other fields that we feature on our site (politics, science, sports, etc.) that are male-dominated or have aspects that favour males and our hope is that our women readers feel more confident after finding a woman model to admire in these kinds of fields.

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8yr ago

@jennytkim hey Jenny, I have a very rough understanding of where you're coming from but again: "I think women models provide confidence for other aspiring women" I don't really get this, since to me at least, the fact that someone is a woman, does not make it easier for me to identify with them, does not make me feel like anything connects us. To be it honestly sounds like "as a blond person, it gives me confidence seeing other blond people being successful in brunette-dominated fields". Maybe that sounds funny, but that's how the gender things sound to me as well :)

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8yr ago

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Subscribed! and I liked my first email too. Although when I clicked on the email to open the site >> I got a 404 error :(

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8yr ago

Wisebooks

Maker

@latifbaluch1 Thanks so much for the warm comment! And thank you for bringing up that issue, I'll fix that for the other people receiving the email :)

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8yr ago

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@jennytkim site seems be working now. I also like the fact you have a link the Amazon - I rarely buy books straight-away but loving adding them to an Amazon list and then circling back when I feel like going wild and doing a big books purchase. Good work team!

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8yr ago

Wisebooks

Maker

@latifbaluch1 really happy to hear you like the Amazon link feature, thanks Latif!! :)

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8yr ago

Wise Buyer

This is awesome, I'll definitely give this a shot! I was up super late last night going through Goodreads recommendations and searching for stuff like "Marc Andreessen recommended books" so this really solves a problem I had. Also please add Marc to the list of people on there.

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8yr ago

Deel

Maker

Hey @hkimia love that this is useful to you! Also thanks for the recommendation... working on Marc as I type :)

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8yr ago

Voiceflow

I’ve been using this already for weeks. Crazy to see it on PH now!

Pros:

I need books!

Cons:

None!

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8yr ago

So awesome! Can't wait for this to grow. would also love to see a twitter login / integration which would show if anyone I'm following is in your repository :)

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8yr ago

Wisebooks

Maker

@air_on_web Thank you so much! And that's a really great suggestion, we'll definitely work on that :)

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8yr ago

It's perfect

Pros:

It's really helpful to find great books

I often need to update my to read list, and wise books suggestions are always spot on.

Cons:

None

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8yr ago

Deel

Maker

Hey guys, it looks like our site has crashed but we are working to get it back up and running. Thank you so much for your interest - we'll add you to the weekly list if you sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/4b52d93208f3/... and we'll also keep you guys posted on the status of Wisebooks when we're back up!

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8yr ago

Deel

Maker

We're back up!

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8yr ago

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