Bookshelf

I'm a big fan of reading, and yes, audioboooks count! I've had people ask me for book recommendations, so I compiled a list of some of my favorite books. I update it occasionally, which is to say, not often.

• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
  by Morgan Housel
• On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
  by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee
• Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
  by Cade Metz
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
  by David Deutsch
• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
  by Adam Grant
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  by David Allen
• Impro: Improvisation and The Theater
  by Keith Johnstone
• The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives
  by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
• Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
  by Eric Berger
• Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship
  by Mahan Khalsa, Randy Illig
• The Wright Brothers
  by David McCullough
• The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
  by Peter Zeihan
• Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
  by Jeanna Smialek
• Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
  by William Greider
• The Price of Time
  by Edward Chancellor
• Leadership in Turbulent Times
  by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Deep Survival
  by Laurence Gonzales
• Business Adventures
  by John Brooks
• Capitalism in America: A History
  by Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge
• The Lessons of History
  by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
  by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  by Walter Isaacson
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
  by Katie Hafner
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
  by Philip E. Tetlock
• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
  by Safi Bahcall
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
  by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
  by Chris Hadfield
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
  by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things
  by Ben Horowitz
• Into Thin Air
  by Jon Krakauer
• Am I Being too Subtle?
  by Sam Zell
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
  by John Doerr
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  by David Epstein
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
  by Jessica Livingston
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
  by Gary Keller
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
  by William Thorndike
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  by Daniel Kahneman
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
  by Eliyahu Goldratt, Jeff Cox
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
  by Steven Pressfield
• Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
  by George Leonard
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
  by Michael Gerber
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  by Daniel Pink
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
  by Phil Knight
• Talk Like TED
  by Carmine Gallo
• Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
  by Byrne Hobart, Tobias Huber
• The Dream Machine
  by M. Mitchell Waldrop
• A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
  by Ed Thorp
• Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
  by David Goggins
• How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why It Happens
  by Benedict Carey
• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
  by Hamilton Helmer
• The Bitcoin Standard
  by Saifedean Ammous
• Tools of Titans
  by Tim Ferriss
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
  by Mark Manson
• No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
  by Sarah Frier
• The Spotify Play: How CEO and Founder Daniel Ek Beat Apple, Google, and Amazon in the Race for Audio Dominance
  by Scen Carlsson, Jonas Leijonhufvud
• Influence: Science and Practice
  by Robert Cialdini
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  by Nassim Taleb
• Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality
  by Bill Kilday
• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
  by Martin Gurri
• So Good They Can't Ignore You
  by Cal Newport
• First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
  by Thomas E. Ricks
• Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy
  by Mo Gawdat
• Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
  by Mark Robichaux
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  by Charles Duhigg
• Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
  by Shane Parrish
• The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
  by Brian Merchant
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
  by Marty Cagan
• One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
  by Dee Hock
• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
  by Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
  by Annie Duke
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
  by Tony Fadell
• WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
  by Tim Oreilly
• Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
  by Frank Slootman
• Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, with an Introduction by Walter Isaacson
  by Jeff Bezos
• Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
  by Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman
• Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
  by Madhavan Ramanujam
• That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
  by Marc Randolph
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
  by Reed Hasting
• The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
  by Jimmy Sonni
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
  by Richard Rumelt
• How the World Really Works
  by Vaclav Smil
• Pour Your Heart Into It
  by Howard Schultz
• Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
  by Al Ries, Jack Trout
• Obviously Awesome
  by April Dunford
• Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
  by Robin Wiglesworth
• The Most Important Thing Is…
  by Howard Marks
• Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
  by Morgan Housel
• Setting the Table
  by Danny Meyer
• High Output Management
  by Andy Grove
• The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
  by George Friedman
• Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
  by Alvin Roth
• Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
  by Ian Leslie
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
  by Carol Dweck
• Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
  by Ed Catmull
• Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
  by Claire Hughes Johnson
• Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
  by Roger Lowenstein
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
  by Michael Lewis
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
  by Liaquat Ahamed
• Irrational Exuberance
  by Robert Shiller
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  by Donella H. Meadows
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
  by Carlota Perez