Books

Books
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Books with a πŸ“– 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 πŸ“–

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 πŸ“–
  • 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 πŸ“–
  • 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 πŸ“–
  • Being Mortal - Atul Gawande πŸ“–
  • 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 TolstoyπŸ“–
  • Angel - Jason Calacanis
  • Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
  • Ask Your Developer - Jeff Lawson πŸ“–

2021:

  • High Output Management - Andrew S Grove πŸ“–
  • 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