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 📖 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 📖
founder vs investor - Elizabeth Zalman vs Jerry Neumann 📖
The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
The Creative Act - Rick Rubin 📖
Chip War - Chris Miller
Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt 📖
Jim Henson - Brian Jay Jones
Foodist - Darya Pino Rose
Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor 📖
The Voltage Effect - John A. List 📖
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 📖
Einstein's Fridge - Paul Sen
Better, Simpler Strategy - Felix Oberholzer-Gee 📖
Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda 📖
The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
Speed & Scale - John Doerr
Influence - Robert B. Cialdini 📖
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
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