Bookshelf
All-Time Favourites (21)
The MANIAC
Benjamín Labatut
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Behave
Robert M Sapolsky
White Holes
Carlo Rovelli and Simon Carnell
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Outlive
Peter Attia MD
How Children Learn
John Holt
The Whole-Brain Child
Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef
Brazil
Heloisa M. Starling and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Ben Horowitz
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh
Torto Arado
Itamar Vieira Junior
Principles
Ray Dalio
Others I liked (64)
Six Easy Pieces
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Philippe Legrain
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight
Anaximander
Carlo Rovelli and Marion Lignana Rosenberg
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Carlo Rovelli
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
Philippa Perry
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Carlo Rovelli
Helgoland
Carlo Rovelli
Genius Makers
Cade Metz
Without a Doubt: How to Go from Underrated to Unbeatable
Surbhi Sarna
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore
1984
George Orwell
The Fabric of Reality
David Deutsch
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
High Output Management
Andrew Grove
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Everyday Zen
Charlotte J. Beck
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Basic Economics
Thomas Sowell
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
Bryan Caplan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer
Inspired
Marty Cagan
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Noam Wasserman
Decisive
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Bill Aulet
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Nir Eyal
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Island Home
Tim Winton
Competing Against Luck
Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
The Internet of Money
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Estrogeneration
Anthony G. Jay
Factfulness
Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life
Suhas Kshirsagar, Michelle D. Seaton
Inadequate Equilibria
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Gift of Global Talent
William R. Kerr
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration
Bryan Caplan
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
9 Months
Ruby Matley and David Addenbrooke
Escaping the Build Trap
Melissa Perri
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Albert Costa
Conscious
Annaka Harris
Team Topologies
Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais, and Ruth Malan
The Rip Curl Story
Tim Baker
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
Annie Duke
The Infinite Machine
Camila Russo
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Michael Pollan
Think Again
Adam Grant
Connect
David L. Bradford and Carole Robin
From Start-Up to Grown-Up
Alisa Cohn
The Metaverse
Matthew Ball
Good Inside
Dr Becky Kennedy
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Morgan Housel
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
Marc Randolph
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin
Others I read (45)
The Computer and the Brain
John von Neumann
Boom
Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
The Staff Engineer's Path
Tanya Reilly
Building Event-Driven Microservices
Adam Bellemare
Node.js Design Patterns
Mario Casciaro
From Impossible to Inevitable
Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin
Growth Levers and How to Find Them
Matt Lerner
Mind in the Making
Ellen Galinsky
Streetlights and Shadows
Gary A. Klein
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Founding Sales
Peter R Kazanjy
Health Design Thinking
Bon Ku and Ellen Lupton
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
The Lessons of History
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
Disrupting the Game
Reggie Fils-Aimé
Talent
Tyler Cowan and Daniel Gross
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
An Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson
The Upstarts
Brad Stone
Australia
Kenneth Morgan
The Sound of the Sea
Cynthia Barnett
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What to Expect the First Year [Third Edition]; Most Trusted Baby Advice Book
Heidi Murkoff
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Some Stories
Yvon Chouinard
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank
On the Shortness of Life
Lucius Seneca
The Lean Mindset
Mary Poppendieck and Tom Poppendieck
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
The Quest of the Simple Life
William J. Dawson
Why Australia Prospered
Ian W. McLean
Sprint
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, and Braden Kowitz
Zero to Sold
Arvid Kahl
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
Little Black Stretchy Pants: Story of lululemon by the Founder, Chip Wilson
Chip Wilson
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Art of Strategic Decision-Making: How to Make Tough Decisions Quickly, Intelligently, and Safely (Think Smarter, Not Harder Book 3)
Peter Hollins
The Internet of Money Volume Two
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Gabriel Weinberg
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Brad Feld
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni
Luna, the Night Butterfly + 5 Bonus Stories!
Lily Lexington