Reading
Favorite Books
* = the best books I’ve read
Entrepreneurship
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup*
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness*
- The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
- Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
- Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million
- Where Good Ideas Come From
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
- Steve Jobs
Psychology
- Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment*
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World*
- Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction*
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads*
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups*
- The WEIRDest People in the World*
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
- The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
Non-Fiction
- The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values*
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World*
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise*
- Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most*
- The Mind Illuminated
- Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
- Fully Automated Luxury Communism
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- How To Take Smart Notes
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Fiction
- The Three-Body Problem*
- The Just City*
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage*
- Babel*
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow*
- Normal People
- Foundation
- Red Rising