Books

Books with a 📖 emoji are ones I feel I should re-read later on / are worth buying in print to mark up. If I read a book and don't think it's any good I don't add it to the list at all.

In Progress:

• Miracle Morning

2024:

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Invention: A Life of Learning Through Failure - James Dyson
• Build - Tony Fadell 📖
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

2023:

• Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert
• Community in a Box - Mark Birch 📖
• What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
• More Money Than God - Sebastian Mallaby
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner
• The Start-up of You - Reid Hoffman
• Influence - Robert B. Cialdini 📖
• Speed & Scale - John Doerr
• The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
• Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda 📖
• Better, Simpler Strategy - Felix Oberholzer-Gee 📖
• Einstein's Fridge - Paul Sen
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 📖
• Becoming Dr. Seuss - Brian Jay Jones
• Sid Meier's Memoir! - Sid Meier, Jennifer Lee Noonan
• Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
• Billion Dollar Whale - Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
• Like, Comment, Subscribe - Mark Bergen
• The Voltage Effect - John A. List 📖
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor 📖
• Foodist - Darya Pino Rose
• Jim Henson - Brian Jay Jones
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt 📖
• Chip War - Chris Miller
• The Creative Act - Rick Rubin 📖
• The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
• founder vs investor - Elizabeth Zalman vs Jerry Neumann 📖
• The Acorn Method: How Companies Get Growing Again - Henrik Werdelin 📖
• How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil

2022:

• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
• Zero to One - Thiel, Peter
• The Business of Venture Captial - Mahendra Ramsinghani
• Amp 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 - Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall, David S. Duncan
• Stuff Matters – Mark Miodownik
• Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
• Platform Revolution - Geoffrey G. Parker
• Sell More Faster - Amos Schwartzfarb 📖
• Being Mortal - Atul Gawande 📖
• Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
• Red Notice - Bill Browder
• If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) - Betty White
• The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt 📖
• The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
• Losing the Signal - Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
• Lights Out - 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