Books

Books with a 📖 emoji are ones I feel I should re-read later on / are worth buying in print to mark up.

In Progress:

• Influence - Robert B. Cialdini 📖

2023:

• The Start-up of You - Reid Hoffman
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
• More Money Than God - Sebastian Mallaby
• What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
• Community in a Box - Mark Birch 📖
• Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert

2022:

• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• Zero to One - Thiel, Peter
• The Business of Venture Captial - Mahendra Ramsinghani
• Ampt It Up - Frank Slootman 📖
• How Music Got Free - Stephen Witt
• The World in a Grain - Vince Beiser
• Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
• Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli
• The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
• The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester
• Travels in Siberia - Ian Frazier
• One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Fish that Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen
• Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
• Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice - Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall, David S. Duncan
• Stuff Matters – Mark Miodownik
• Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
• Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You - Geoffrey G. Parker
• Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Startups - Amos Schwartzfarb 📖
• Being Mortal - Atul Gawande 📖
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice - Bill Browder
• If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) - Betty White
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
• Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry - Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
• Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric - Ted Mann and Thomas Gryta
• The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner
• Who is Michael Ovitz - Michael Ovitz
• VC - Tom Nicholas
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy📖
• Angel - Jason Calacanis
• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
• Ask Your Developer - Jeff Lawson 📖

2021:

• High Output Management - Andrew S Grove 📖
• Good to Great - Jim Collins
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
• The Advantage - Patrick M Lencioni
• The Box - Marc Levison
• The Loop - Ben Oliver
• Renegades - Marissa Meyer

2020:

• Recursion - Crouch, Blake
• Severance - Ma, Ling
• Burning Chrome - Gibson, William
• Red Rising Series - Brown, Pierce
• Armada - Cline, Ernest
• Invisible Women - Perez, Caroline Criado
• The Ride of a Lifetime - Iger, Robert
• One Word Kill - Lawrence, Mark
• Driven to Distraction - Hallowell, Edward
• Delivered from Distraction - Hallowell, Edward
• Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain, Anthony
• Bad Blood - Carreyrou, John

2019:

• When Breath Becomes Air - Kalanithi, Paul
• Becoming - Michelle Obama
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Kondo, Marie
• Void Star - Mason, Zachary
• The Three-Body Problem Series - Liu, Cixin

Some point in the past:

• Vorkosigan Saga - Bujold, Lois McMaster