Ideas for your work
01 / 03A question worth asking
How to fix user interviews that are not teaching you anything
Useful takeaway
Ask about recent behavior.
The Mom Test turns vague praise into evidence you can act on.
THE BOOK & SKILL LIBRARY
Good books.
Fresh perspective.Put good books
to work.Your shelf
Read the ideas.
Give your agent a method to work with.
01Better questions
02Clearer thinking
03New possibilities
04Small beginnings
05Room to focus
Follow your curiosity. Click a cover to take a closer look.Drag to rearrange. Click to pick one up.
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Turn what you read into how you work.
Give your agent the frameworks, questions, and practical rules inside a good book. Turn them into a better interview, a clearer decision, or a plan you can use.
Ideas for your work
02 / 03A question worth asking
How to tell whether to pivot or keep going
Useful takeaway
Separate puzzles from anomalies.
Kuhn helps you tell normal iteration from evidence that the whole frame is wrong.
Ideas for your work
03 / 03A question worth asking
How to make a plan that survives contact with reality
Useful takeaway
Keep local facts in the plan.
Seeing Like a State shows why plans fail when messy ground truth gets deleted.
Skills in action
Your agent, well read.
A book’s methods.
At work in your next task.
Your agent
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npx --yes https://github.com/Crowdlisten/Crowdlisten_books/releases/download/v0.7.1/answer-with-books-0.7.1.tgz books --public --json- Designing Your Life
- Deep Work
- Zero to One
ask3 books · 1 answer
Ask with the task and context above
npx --yes https://github.com/Crowdlisten/Crowdlisten_books/releases/download/v0.7.1/answer-with-books-0.7.1.tgz ask "How do I choose a career where I can do great work?" --top-of-mind "I love writing, software, and teaching. Where should I focus?" --jsonRetrieved sources
- Books: Working Identity; So Good They Can't Ignore You; Designing Your Life
- Answer: How to decide what to do with your career next
Test a possible path. Build skill as you go.
Build a small piece of the future you want.
Make a tiny tool that teaches something you care about.
Test it with five people. Notice which part you want to improve.
Ask a practitioner for feedback. Choose one skill to deepen next.
A useful first bet teaches you something and leaves you more capable.
Sources from books. Applied by your agent.Ready to use
Featured books
A few good places
to begin.
startups
The Mom Test
How to talk to customers and learn the truth when everyone is lying to you, including your mom.
decision making
Thinking, Fast and Slow
A map of the two systems that run your mind and the predictable ways the fast one fools you.
business
Zero to One
A forceful argument that enduring companies create a valuable future others do not yet see, then build a position that competitors cannot easily copy.
collective intelligence
The Wisdom of Crowds
Why large groups of ordinary people outguess experts and the exact conditions under which they stop.
systems
Seeing Like a State
Why grand schemes to improve the human condition fail: they replace messy local knowledge with tidy maps, then mistake the map for the territory.
science
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Science doesn't progress by smooth accumulation. It alternates between puzzle-solving within a paradigm and rare, wrenching revolutions that replace it.
strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Strategy begins by naming the decisive challenge, choosing an approach to it, and concentrating actions so they reinforce one another.
startups
The Lean Startup
A method for testing value and growth assumptions through small experiments, cohort evidence, and explicit decisions before uncertainty consumes the venture.
Give your agent
a useful skill.
Turn the methods in a book or document into a way to tackle your next task.
Answers from the shelf
For the question
on your mind.
Reading note 01 · 3 source books
How to tell whether your value proposition is actually different
A value proposition is different only when a user chooses or behaves differently because of it. Use a substitution test, a commitment test, and one observable outcome before polishing the claim.
Read the answer
Reading note 02 · 1 source book
How to fix user interviews that are not teaching you anything
When user interviews produce vague encouragement, switch from opinions to evidence: ask about recent behavior, constraints, failed workarounds, and concrete commitments.
Read the answer
Reading note 03 · 2 source books
How to tell whether to pivot or keep going
A guide for founders and teams stuck between persistence and denial. Kuhn gives the crisis diagnostic; Kahneman explains why sunk costs make the truth hard to see.
Read the answer
Reading note 04 · 2 source books
How to make a plan that survives contact with reality
Make plans resilient by naming what the model omits, preserving local knowledge, using reversible steps and slack, and defining evidence that can revise the plan.
Read the answer
Reading note 05 · 2 source books
How to keep a smart team from making a dumb decision
Protect group judgment by collecting independent views, preserving local information, separating evidence from discussion, and using an explicit aggregation and decision rule.
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Reading note 06 · 2 source books
How to validate an idea without fooling yourself
Replace verdict-seeking pitches with recent behavior, costly commitments, base rates, disconfirming evidence, and a written rule for what would change the idea.
Read the answerYour reading life
Track what
keeps showing up.
See the books, answers, and patterns you return to.
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Explore insights and see the books and ideas you return to for the situations that keep coming up.
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Good questions.
Clear answers.
What is a skill?
A skill gives an agent instructions for applying a book’s methods: useful frameworks, decision rules, checklists, and mistakes to avoid. Supporting reference notes provide context for the task.
How do I use a book with my agent?
Open a book and choose Copy prompt for your AI. This copies the book notes and instructions to your clipboard. Paste them into your AI chat and describe your task. For an uploaded book, the prompt also includes the generated skill and references. No installation is needed for this copy-and-paste flow.
What does uploading a book create?
One searchable upload creates a readable book artifact, a reusable skill with supporting references, and a cover. Keep the upload dialog open until saving finishes; processing then continues in the background. Your files and results stay private to your account.
How is the public shelf different?
Public book pages are editorial digests with agent prompts. The fuller downloadable skill package is generated from your own uploaded source. Public pages do not contain the original book’s full text.
Can I keep and reuse the skill?
Yes. An uploaded book has Download book & skill, which exports a ZIP with the book artifact, SKILL.md, reference notes, patterns, a cheatsheet, and a glossary. Add those files to an agent that supports skills, or use Copy prompt for your AI for a single task.