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Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

Designers and Authors

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are former Google Ventures design partners who together created the Design Sprint methodology and co-authored the bestselling books Sprint, Make Time, and Click. They are co-founders of Character Capital, applying their product design expertise to venture investing.

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Books by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

star4.4

The former Google Ventures designers present a four-step daily framework. Highlight, Laser, Energize, Reflect, for escaping what they call the Busy Bandwagon and the Infinity Pools of endless digital feeds. Instead of optimizing every minute, they argue you should pick one 60-90 minute highlight each day and defend it against the default distractions engineered by modern software.

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Most Recommended by Jake

The books Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

Sprint by Jake Knapp

Sprint

by Jake Knapp

star4.2

Knapp outlines a five-day process for answering critical business questions through prototyping and testing with real users. Replace months of debate with tangible evidence.

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Deep Work by Cal Newport

Deep Work

by Cal Newport

star4.6

Newport argues that the ability to focus without distraction is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable. Deep work is the superpower of the knowledge economy.

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The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr

The Power of Full Engagement

by Jim Loehr

star4.1

Loehr argues manageing energy, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, matters more than manageing time. Peak performance requires oscillating between intense effort and deliberate recovery.

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Getting Things Done by David Allen

Getting Things Done

by David Allen

star4.5

Allen's system externalises every commitment from your mind into a trusted workflow. The core insight: mental clarity comes from capturing and organising all open loops.

self-helpbusiness
Atomic Habits by James Clear

Atomic Habits

by James Clear

star4.8

Clear argues that lasting change comes not from setting goals but from building identity-based habits. Small improvements compound over time, and the system you follow matters far more than the results you chase.

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Influence Map

Who Jake draws from, and who draws from Jake — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

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