The Great Rat Race Escape
by MJ DeMarco
DeMarco's Fastlane philosophy as a novel: a couple in debt builds a business through 'productocracy', relative value and the escape from the salary trap. Didactic fiction with the principles summarised between chapters.
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Three things you will actually use
- Build a productocracy: something people recommend.
- Escape the salary trap through ownership.
- Value skew: be meaningfully better on one dimension.
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Read it and list the forty principles the chapters highlight.
Our verdict
Fastlane, as a novel.
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