# Tiago Forte's Must-Reads

**Founder of Forte Labs**

Tiago Forte is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and author. He is the founder of Forte Labs, a company that helps people build their own digital products.

### Recommended Reads

1. [How to read self-help](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/how-to-read-self-help/index.html)
   
   
   Which self-help is worth reading, and how to get the most from it...

2. [Can a School Have Product-Market Fit?](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/can-a-school-have-product-market-fit/index.html)
   
   
   Scaling a School pt. 1 (~1,500 words)...

3. [1000 True Fans? Try 100](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/1000-true-fans-try-100/index.html)
   
   
   More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called "1,000 True Fans," predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of peo...

4. [The Web and the New Reality](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/the-web-and-the-new-reality/index.html)
   
   
   I posted this essay in my own pre-blog, Reality 2.0, on December 1, 1995. I think maybe now, in this long moment after we've hit a pause button on our...

5. [Four Editors in Search of a Thread: A Documentary Roundtable](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/four-editors-in-search-of-a-thread-a-documentary-roundtable/index.html)
   
   
   Editor's Note: This is an abridged version of an article that originally appeared in the March-April 2003 issue of Editors Guild Magazine. For the com...

6. [There and back again: the story of renaming ConvertKit](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/there-and-back-again-the-story-of-renaming-convertkit/index.html)
   
   
   One of our values at ConvertKit is Work in Public. That's why we share all our metrics, our journey, and lessons learned. That's an easy value to live...

7. [Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/seeing-like-an-algorithm-remains-of-the-day/index.html)
   
   
   In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherb...

8. [The Secret Power of 'Read It Later' Apps - Forte Labs](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/the-secret-power-of-read-it-later-apps-forte-labs/index.html)
   
   
   At the end of 2014 I received an email informing me that I had read over a million words in the 'read it later' app Pocket over the course of the year...

9. [My 4-Stage System for Learning Anything New - Forte Labs](/content/experts-must-reads/tiago-forte/my-4-stage-system-for-learning-anything-new-forte-labs/index.html)
   
   
   Discover the systematic approach that turns curiosity into expertise through immersion, building, mentorship, and community.