About

Professionally, Diaundra has a career background in tech as a founder, strategic operator, business developer, and brand storyteller. Her recent startup raised over $3M in VC funding to build a digital headquarters for creators. Before that, she worked at Microsoft on cloud and productivity products.

Outside of work, Diaundra believes that life is meant to be lived. Her constant curiosity fuels her passion for learning. What started as Diaundra sharing the books she was reading and her thoughts on them on Instagram, led to so many DMs that she decided to start archiving and sharing her takeaways in a newsletter. Diaundra's personal challenge is to summarize an entire book into one page of notes on her iPhone's Notes app. She loves to read non-fiction books that span topics such as tech, business, wellness, and spirituality.

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Table of contents

Books I’ve read in 2023

1. The psychology of money - Morgan Housel 

2. I will teach you to be rich - Ramit Sethi

3. The design of everyday things - Don Norman 

4. Wherever you go, there you are - Jon Kabat-Zinn

5. The untethered soul - Michael Singer (summary coming soon)

6. The art of gathering - Priya Parker 

7. The creative act - Rick Rubin 

8. Never finished - David Goggins

9. What you do is who you are - Ben Horowitz

Books on my to read list: HERE