2019: A Year of Learning, Shipping, and Getting Better

I’m a firm believer that learning is one of the most important things we can do for our careers.

I’ve made continuous learning and shipping projects a priority in 2019 and will continue to place a great amount of value on both throughout the rest of my life, not just my career.

This is the first year in a long time that I haven’t read anything not career-related and I plan to get back into reading about some of my favorite topics including US History, specifically topics related to the American Revolution and World War II.

I’ve provided a list of what I’ve read, watched, listened to, attended, and shipped in 2019:

Here are some of the things I’ve participated in:

• Completed Seth Godin’s 100-weeklong The Marketing Seminar
• Became a member of Forward Link (a community for Akimbo Alumni)
• Became a member of a Mastermind group of TMS alumni
• Became a member of the Right Company; a community of support, accountability, and knowledge sharing for people building companies or working on projects.
• Created another post-TMS alumni Slack group for staying connected with and continuing to learn from members of my cohort
• Completed the Akimbo Story Skills Workshop with Bernadette Jiwa
• Was accepted into Seth Godin’s altMBA which will begin in January 2020

I attended two marketing-related conferences:

• Digital Crush; Tri-Cities, WA (was also a speaker at this one)
• Marketing Profs B2B Marketing Forum; Washington, DC

Read the following books:

• Rocket Surgery Made Easy; Steve Krug
• This is Marketing; Seth Godin
• Obviously Awesome; April Dunford
• A Whole New Mind; Daniel Pink
• Measure What Matters; John Doerr
• Unf*ck Yourself; Gary John Bishop
• Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck; Mark Manson
• Do Better Work; Max Yoder
• Difference; Bernadette Jiwa
• Story Driven; Bernadette Jiwa
• Fortune Cookie Principle; Bernadette Jiwa
• Footprints on the Moon; Seth Godin

Listened to the following audiobooks:

• This is Marketing; Seth Godin
• The Best of Guerilla Marketing: Guerilla Marketing Remix; Jay Conrad Levinson
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More; Chris Anderson
• Leap First: Creating Work that Matters; Seth Godin
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us; Daniel Pink
• Linchpin: Are you Indispensable?; Seth Godin
• Start with Why; Simon Sinek
• Tribes; Seth Godin
• Make Your Idea Matter; Bernadette Jiwa
• Marketing: A Love Story; Bernadette Jiwa
• The Art of Possibility; Rosamund Stone Zander;
• How Brands Grow; Byron Sharp

Read the following books on Kindle:

• The Right Story; Bernadette Jiwa

I started a podcast (The Winding Road) so I could learn a new skill and find a different medium for sharing ideas, perspectives and what I know

I started two new blogs (windingroadpodcast.com/blog, travislscott.com)

Created a video series shared on social (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube)

I listen regularly to the following podcasts:

• Akimbo; Seth Godin
• The Gary Vee Audio Experience
• The Tim Ferriss Show
• Duct Tape Marketing
• The Science of Social Media
• Marketing School
• Social Media Marketing with Michael Stelzner
• HBR Ideacast

I subscribe to (and read regularly) the following emails:

• Seth’s Blog
• The Story of Telling by Bernadette Jiwa
• Occam’s Razor
• Daily Carnage
• Harvard Business Review’s Management Tip of the Day
• Marie Forleo
• Christopher Penn’s “Almost Timely News”

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