Reading List
Current
- Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
- The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
2024
- The Algebra of Wealth - Scott Galloway
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- Built to Sell - John Warrillow
- The Panama Papers - Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier
- Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff
- Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
- Paper - Mark Kurlansky
- The Evolution of Cooperation - Robert Axelrod
- Red Notice - Bill Browder
- Barons - Austin Frerick
- From Strength to Strength - Arthur C. Brooks
- It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work - Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” - Richard P. Feynman
- California Burning - Katherine Blunt
- A Hacker’s Mind - Bruce Schneier
- Die With Zero - Bill Perkins
- The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
- Same as Ever - Morgan Housel
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” - Richard P. Feynman
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order - Ray Dalio
- A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
2023
- The Founders - Jimmy Soni
- The Grid - Gretchen Bakke
- When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
- Blood Money - Kathleen McLaughlin
- The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
- Stop Over Thinking - Nick Trenton
- Number Don’t Lie - Vaclav Smil
- Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
- Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
- Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
- Gambler - Billy Walters
- Wanting - Luke Burgis
- We Are Bellingcat - Eliot Higgins
- The Stranger - Albert Camus
- The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
- Speed Reading - Kam Knight
- Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
- Everybody Lies - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
- The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
- Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise
- Experiential Intelligence - Soren Kaplan
- The Bond King - Mary Childs
- Give and Take - Adam Grant
- Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
- Build - Tony Fadell
- Leadership and Self-Deception - The Arbinger Institute
- The Essence of Software - Daniel Jackson
- Trillion Dollar Triage - Nick Timiraos
- How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil
- Cheap Land Colorado - Ted Conover
- Chip War - Chris Miller
- A Thousand Brains - Jeff Hawkins
- The Quants - Scott Patterson
- The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
- Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
- Complexity: A Guided Tour - Melanie Mitchell
- Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance
- Oranges - John McPhee
- Rogues - Patrick Radden Keefe
2022
- Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
- Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin
- Lighter - Yung Pueblo
- The Information - James Gleick
- Think Like a Freak - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Originals - Adam Grant
- Rebel Ideas - Matthew Syed
- Davos Man - Peter S. Goodman
- Evicted - Matthew Desmond
- Janesville - Amy Goldstein
- Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
- Central Banking - Joseph Wang
- The Gift of Fear - Gavin De Becker
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
- Beyond Order - Jordan Peterson
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
- The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger
- An Elegant Puzzle - Will Larson
- The Premonition - Michael Lewis
History
- Think Again - Adam Grant
- Essentialism - Greg McKeown
- Start with Why - Simon Sinek
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
- Nudge - Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
- When to Rob a Bank - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Super Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Capitlaism, Alone - Branko Milanović
- Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
- Factfulness - Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
- ReWork - Jason Fried & David Hansson
- Negotiation Genius - Deepak Malhotra & Max Bazerman
- Liar’s Poker - Michael Lewis
- The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
- The New New Thing - Michael Lewis
- Boomerang - Michael Lewis
- The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
- Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
- The Big Short - Michael Lewis
- The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
- The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
- The Rosie Effect - Graeme Simsion
- The Rosie Result - Graeme Simsion
- Good Economics for Hard Times - Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
- Skin in the Game - Nassim Taleb
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Range - David Epstein
- Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
- Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
- Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
- Billion Dollar Whale - Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
- Chaos - James Gleick
- Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
- No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings & Eric Meyer
- Billion Dollar Loser - Reeves Wiedeman
- The Man Who Solved the Market - Gregory Zuckerman
- Super Pumped - Mike Issac