Links are notes, longform writing, or the readable pdfs themselves. Italicized titles I’ve read, but are more for the ledger than inspiration worth revisiting.
Books
- Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile (Things That Gain From Disorder)
- David Deutsch: The Beginning of Infinity
- Peter Thiel: Zero to One
- James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg: The Sovereign Individual
- Jamie Wheal: Stealing Fire, Recapture the Rapture
- Thomas Sowell: Barbarians Inside The Gates
- Scott Adams: Loserthink
- Ben Horowitz: What You Do is Who You Are
- Ashley Mears: Very Important People – Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
- Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
- Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism
- Morgan Housel: The Psychology of Money
- David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs, Debt – The First 5000 Years
- Matt Stoller: Goliath – The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power & Democracy
- Nathaniel Popper: Digital Gold
Novels & Short Stories
- Frank Herbert: Dune (Books #1 to #6)
- Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Speaker for the Dead
- Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of The Rings Trilog
- Amish Tripathi: Shiva Trilogy, Ram Chandra Trilogy, Immortal India
- Walter Tevis: The Hustler, The Color of Money
- Mario Puzo: The Godfather
- Herman Hesse: Siddhartha, Demian
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation, The Last Question
- Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron
- Amor Towles: A Gentleman in Moscow
- Joseph Heller: Catch-22
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm
- Brian Jacques: Redwall Chronicles
Biographies & Memoirs
- Michael Dell: Play Nice But Win
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack (Charlie Munger)
- Gregory Zuckerman: The Man Who Solved the Market (Jim Simon)
- Richard Feynman: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
- Michael Lewis: The Undoing Project (on Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky)
- Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk
- Phil Knight: Shoe Dog
- Jony Ive – The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products (by Leander Kahney)
- E.O. Wilson – Scientist – A Life in Nature (by Richard Rhodes)
- Joe Coulombe: Becoming Trader Joe
- Ken Langone: I Love Capitalism
- Mitch Alborn: Tuesdays with Morrie
- Robin Sharma: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari