Reading List

Reading

Economics

• The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression - Peter Joseph

Mythology

• The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers

Finished

Biography

• Steve Jobs - Walter Issacson *
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X, Alex Haley *

Buddhism

• The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation - Thich Nhat Hanh
• What the Buddha Taught - Walpola Sri Rahula

Business

• Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You - John Warrillow * 2x
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim, Renne Mauborgne
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande *
• The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects - Andrew Chen 2x
• Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business - Paul Jarvis 2x
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers - Geoffrey A. Moore, Regis McKenna *
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - Michael E. Gerber *
• The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup - Noam Wasserman
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
• The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime - MJ DeMarco
• The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you - Rob Fitzpatrick
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman 2x
• The Practice: Shipping Creative Work - Seth Godin
• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
• Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth - Ash Maurya
• Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup - Rob Walling * 2x
• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
• This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See - Seth Godin
• Unscripted - The Great Rat-Race Escape: From Wage-Slavery to Wealth: How to Start a Purpose-Driven Business and Win Financial Freedom for a Lifetime - MJ Demarco *
• Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship - MJ DeMarco * 2x
• Wealth Exposed This Short Argument I Overheard Made Me a Fortune... Can It Do the Same for You? - MJ DeMarco
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Design

• The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman

Education

• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto * 2x

Economics

• The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations - David Pilling
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
• Bachelor Pad Economics - Aaron Clarey
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory - David Graeber
• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics - Henry Hazlitt *

Fiction

• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• The Alchemist - Pablo Coelho * 2x
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand *
• The Last Bling King - Mike Hockney *

Health

• Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health - Casey Means, Calley Means *
• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health - Marion Nestle

History

• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind - Jan Lucassen
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber, David Wengrow
• Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years - David Gardner
• Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock
• Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Information Technonogy

• This Is for Everyone - Tim Berners-Lee
• The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It - Jonathan L. Zittrain
• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Fascicle 1, MMIX: A RISC Computer for the New Millennium - Donald E Knuth
• CCNA 200-301: Official Cert Guide, Volume 1 + 2 - Wendell Odom
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
• Crafting Interpreters - Robert Nystrom
• Writing a Compiler in Go - Thorsten Ball
• Writing an Interpreter in Go - Thorsten Ball

Leadership

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink , Leif Babin

Mythology

• The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Philosophy

• The Menu - Aaron Clarey
• Reconnaissance Man - Aaron Clarey
• Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual - Dennis Prager
• Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living - Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine
• How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty - Harry Browne
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Ryan Holiday
• The Way of Men - Jack Donovan

Psychology

• Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing - Roger Dooley
• The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
• The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene 2x
• The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene * 2x
• Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions - Johann Hari
• Man’s Search for Himself - Rollo May
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder - Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain *

Politics

• The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West - Alenander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska * 2x
• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
• A World Without Men: An Analysis of an All-Female Economy - Aaron Clarey
• Enjoy the Decline - Aaron Clarey
• Propaganda - Edward L. Bernays, Mark Crispin Miller
• The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom - James Burnham *
• Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person's Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian - Strategies, Tools, and Models - Bruce E. Levine *

Science Fiction

• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
• The Martian - Andy Weir

Science

• How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Vaclav Smil
• How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler - Ryan North
• How to Lie with Statistics - Darrell Huff
• The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come from, and What Makes Us Happy - William von Hippel *
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker 2x

Self Help

• The 50th Law - 50 Cent, Robert Greene
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear 2x
• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One - Joe Dispenza
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor
• The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism - Olivia Fox Cabane
• The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy and Human Nature - Robert Greene *
• Everything Is Fucked: Ein Buch über Hoffnung (A Book About Hope) - Mark Manson
• The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast! - Josh Kaufman
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman * 2x
• How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius *
• Mastery - Robert Greene * 4x
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny - Robin Sharma
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson * 2x

Web Story

• The Egg - Andy Weir * 6x

Writing

• Writing Without Bullshit: Boost Your Career by Saying What You Mean - Josh Bernoff