Books
I read (and maintain this list of) books mostly for entrainment and self improvement. However, I don't believe that reading a great book, even one with tactical advice is likely to make a large impact on who I am on or what I do. Instead, my hope is that by doing this, I get to surround myself with authors and subjects that are smarter than me. By spending time with them, I may become a tiny bit smarter, kinder, more patient, and nuanced.
Books with a π emoji are ones I feel I should re-read later on / are worth buying in print to mark up.
In Progress:
- How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil
2023:
- The Acorn Method: How Companies Get Growing Again - Henrik Werdelin π
- founder vs investor - Elizabeth Zalman vs Jerry Neumann π
- The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
- The Creative Act - Rick Rubin π
- Chip War - Chris Miller
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt π
- Jim Henson - Brian Jay Jones
- Foodist - Darya Pino Rose
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor π
- The Voltage Effect - John A. List π
- Like, Comment, Subscribe - Mark Bergen
- Billion Dollar Whale - Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
- Sid Meier's Memoir! - Sid Meier, Jennifer Lee Noonan
- Becoming Dr. Seuss - Brian Jay Jones
- The Midnight Library - Matt Haig π
- Einstein's Fridge - Paul Sen
- Better, Simpler Strategy - Felix Oberholzer-Gee π
- Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda π
- The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
- Speed & Scale - John Doerr
- Influence - Robert B. Cialdini π
- 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 π
- Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert
2022:
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- Zero to One - Thiel, Peter
- The Business of Venture Captial - Mahendra Ramsinghani
- Amp It Up - Frank Slootman π
- 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 β Andy Weir
- Competing Against Luck - Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall, David S. Duncan
- Stuff Matters β Mark Miodownik
- Predictably Irrational β Dan Ariely
- Platform Revolution - Geoffrey G. Parker
- Sell More Faster - Amos Schwartzfarb π
- Being Mortal - Atul Gawande π
- 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 π
- 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 Tolstoyπ
- Angel - Jason Calacanis
- Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
- Ask Your Developer - Jeff Lawson π
2021:
- High Output Management - Andrew S Grove π
- 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