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

Best Articles

• Status as a Service

• The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company ByteDance

• Spatial Software

• Social Wealth Fund

• Default Alive of Default Dead?

• Which Apps Retain their Users and Which Apps Don’t