The Personal MBA Blog
by Josh Kaufman
The Personal MBA blog covers the fundamentals of modern business practice. Major themes include self-education, experimentation, and business mental models. Essays and announcements about Personal MBA-related projects are also posted here.
2012
2011
- Real Artists Ship
- Uncertainty - Jonathan Fields
- End Malaria - Creating a Personal Masterplan
- What Must an Educated Person Know?
- New York Times - 7 Tools to Manage Social Media Overload
- Permanent Portfolio Investing Strategy
- Read This Before Our Next Meeting - Al Pittampalli
- Life After College - Jenny Blake
- The Accidental Creative - Todd Henry
- Bulk Positive Randomness
- Victory Through Clarity
- Fortune's Favor
- Building a Business That Supports Your Life
- Announcing Personal MBA Local Meetups Worldwide
- The Value of Apprenticeships
- What it Really Takes to be an Entrepreneur
- LAUNCH - UK edition of Personal MBA book + recent interviews
2010
- LAUNCH - The Personal MBA Book - Master the Art of Business
- The Craftsman's Creed - Are You a Craftsman?
- Schrödinger on Knowledge
- Myths and Misunderstandings about the Personal MBA
- 5 Secrets of Limitless Personal Growth
- Time is Never "Found" for ANYTHING
- How to NOT Re-Think the MBA
- School is "Just a Formality"
- Personal MBA Reading List - 2010 Edition
- Are You Indispensable? An Interview with Seth Godin
- Best of the Personal MBA, 2009 edition
- Don't Make Predictions - Be Prepared for Anything
2009
- Your Year (and Decade) in Review
- The Persistent Baker
- Management is not Business
- Business Lessons from a Wedding Photography Gig
- Hacking Higher Education, Part 3 - Mike Stankavich Case Study
- Hacking Higher Education, Part 2 - Hacking Harvard
- Hacking Higher Education, Part 1 - CLEP
- Thomas Carlyle's Advice on Reading
- Do You Have a Personal Research and Development Budget?
- Two Ways of Thinking about Business
- 49 Questions to Improve Your Results
- The Awesome Power of Screwing Around
- Resilience - The Secret of Surviving Anything
- The 4 Most Valuable Things I Learned in Business School
- Everything "Free" is Subsidized
- Have You Discovered Your Breaking Point?
- Doing Things Differently - The Practical Non-Conformist
- The Nefarious Hidden Costs of Debt
- Are You an Implementor or an Enabler?
- Are You Trying To Be a Robot?
- The Secret of World-Class Performance
- The Downside of Specialization
- Garbage In, Garbage Out
- An Easy Way to Get Valuable Leadership and Management Experience
- Do You Have These Core Human Skills?
- Use What You Make
- The Dangers of Mystique
- Learning via Self-Experimentation
- Learning by Playing
- Are You Addicted to Power Porn?
- Defend Your Right to Learn
- Follow me on Twitter
- Get Excited and Make (Useful) Things
- Preconceived Notions and the Power of an Empty Cup
- How to Get a Valuable Education Without Mortgaging Your Life
- 10 Time-Tested Ways to Make Money
- Patterns That Work
- Interview - Turbocharge Your Reading Speed with Abby Marks-Beale
- The Value Optimization Paradox
- What will you do post-Personal MBA?
- Announcing a Personal MBA Book Deal
- LAUNCH - Personal MBA 2009 + Request for Help!
- Absence Blindness
- Experimenting with Delegation and Outsourcing
- Another Wide-Ranging Discussion with Ben Casnocha
- How to Handle Business Book Narcissism
- Branding is an Overrated Buzzword
- On Discounting
- Friday Reading - What Happened to the Financial Markets?
- Desiderata - A Poem to Remember
- Olivier Roland's "Crazy" Side Project
- The Personal MBA Side Project Challenge
- LAUNCH - The New Personal MBA Community
2008
- Too True
- An Interview with David McKelfresh
- A Moment of Gratitude
- Business - It's Not Really About the Money
- The Safest Investment
- A wide-ranging discussion with Ben Casnocha
- We've Been Lifehacker-ed!
- The New Books on the Personal MBA Recommended Reading List
- LAUNCH - Personal MBA Recommended Reading List, 2008 edition
- There Are No Magic Businesspeople
- PREVIEW - Personal MBA Recommended Reading List, 2008 edition
- Profiles in Self-Education - Pascal Dangin
- 3 Simple Techniques to Optimize Your Reading Comprehension and Retention
- Personal MBA Community on LinkedIn Reaches 1,000 Members
- Everything I Know About Business I Learned from World of Warcraft
- Steve Pavlina on Investing
- Frank's MBA Experience
- How to Create a Personal Masterplan
- Welcome, Cool Tools Readers!
- Want to know how to kick off 2008 productively? Ask Peter Drucker...
2007
- Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device
- The Teaching Company - Best-in-Class College Lectures
- Amazon Kindle - An Extremely Promising Portable eBook Reader
- The Personal MBA is a Top 50 Business Blog
- Need more time to read? Get rid of your TV.
- Seth Godin on Higher Education
- The Personal MBA meets the "Cranky Middle Manager"
- Have Business Schools Jumped the Shark?
- Personal MBA Social Networking Communities
- UPDATE - Personal MBA 2007 Reading List Finalized
- Donald Trump is All Sizzle, No Steak
- David Seah on "Modern Spellbooks"
- Interview with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods
- JP Morgan's Guaranteed Formula for Success
- Alan Weiss on Certifications and Consulting
- Interview with Seth Godin about "The Dip," Part 2
- Interview with Seth Godin about "The Dip", Part 1
- Friday Joke - The Canoe Race
- The Personal MBA and Personal Investing
- Applied Psychology - Ellis' Irrational Beliefs
- Applied Psychology - Conflict Escalation
- Mankiw's 10 Principles of Economics, Translated
- Here's What You Told Me About the Personal MBA
- The Personal MBA meets the NoBS
- Manager Tools Podcast & Forums
- Profile - Steve Olson
- Brad Feld on MBA Programs
- Can You Put the Personal MBA on a Resume?
- Scott Adams - Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
- Warren Buffett on Business Schools
- Business Rules of Thumb
- Profile - Olivier Cotasson
- Profile - Tyler Martin
