Reid Hoffman is co-founder and executive chairman of Linkedin. After covering 10 sections from Tools of Titans, I am starting to sense that I have an inherent bias for start-up business leaders and against folks who made it doing creative work. Hopefully readers will be mindful of this bias as we walk through the rest of the book together. a) One philosopher to start with. I spent more than a decade being a big fan of philosophy and even spent a lot of time attending philosophy cafes. All these years, no one has bothered to answer the question as to where to start if a layperson is interested in Philosophy. Philosophy undergraduates begin with Logic 101 and legal philosophy has a tendency to give a person really horrible nightmares. As such, Hoffman's suggestion to begin with Ludwig Wittgenstein is highly refreshing. For the layperson, the first step is to ......