This is the same guide by Matt Mochary (an excellent executive coach) that was posted last week. It seems to have been retitled.

Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446839

Second google doc book I see trending on HN within a week. I was kinda annoyed by the first one, so I printed it as PDF and then converted it to an ePub. Typeset is not perfect, but I prefer it over an google doc because I can read it now cross-devices offline in my favorite ebook reader.

This is the same one (unless I missed a different one)

You’re right :/ same one ... got intrigued by the different sounding title

Step one: Publish a book on Google Docs, the most stable book publishing platform on the internet.

How can we download this file?

Go a level up from the provided link i.e. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw... and choose Fil->SaveAs to download in desired format.

Can it be done without logging in?