A collection of my favorite books

"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom." — Albert Einstein

Algorithms, data, and forecasting

• Algorithms to Live By
  Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
• Lean Analytics
  Allistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
• Naked Statistics
  Charles Wheelan
• Superforecasting
  Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner

Biographies

• Amazon Unbound
  Brad Stone
• Becoming Steve Jobs
  Brent Sclender & Rick Tetzeli
• The Four
  Scott Galloway
• Permanent Record
  Edward Snowden
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
  Mike Isaac
• Trillion Dollar Coach
  Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg

Business

• The 12 Week Year
  Brian P. Moran
• Empower / Inspired
  Marty Cagan
• Good to Great
  Jim Collins
• The High Growth Handbook
  Elad Gil
• Measure What Matters
  John Doerr
• The Messy Middle
  Scott Belsky
• Principles
  Ray Dalio
• Rework
  David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
• Turn The Ship Around!
  L. David Marquet
• Turning the Flywheel
  Jim Collins
• Zero to One
  Peter Thiel

Creativity & Design

• Creative Selection
  Ken Kocienda
• Delft Design Guide
  Jaap Daalhuizen
• In Praise of Shadows
  Junichiro Tanizaki
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form
  Christopher Alexander
• Product Design for the Web
  Randy J. Hunt
• Show Your Work
  Austin Kleon
• The War of Art
  Steven Pressfield

Culture Building

• The Amazon Way
  John Rossman
• Creativity, Inc.
  Ed Catmull
• The Culture Map
  Erin Meyer
• No Rules Rules
  Reid Hastings & Erin Meyer
• Powerful
  Patty McCord
• What You Do Is Who You Are
  Ben Horowitz
• Work Rules!
  Laszlo Bock
• Working Backwards
  Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

Health & Human Biology

• Breath
  James Nestor
• Faster, Higher, Stronger
  Mark McClusky
• In Over Our Heads
  Robert Kegan
• Lifespan
  David Sinclair
• Relentless
  Tim S. Grover
• Why We Sleep
  Matthew Walker

History

• Dominion
  Tom Holland
• The Changing World Order
  Ray Dalio
• Drunk
  Edward Slingerland
• Factfulness
  Hans Rosling
• On the Historicity of Jesus
  Richard Carrier
• The Immortality Key
  Brian C. Muraresku
• The Lessons of History
  Will & Ariel Durant
• Sapiens
  Yuval Noah Harari
• Sandworm
  Andy Greenberg

Innovation

• Competing Against Luck
  Clayton Christensen
• Crossing the Chasm
  Geoffrey A. Moore
• The Future Is Faster Than You Think
  Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
• How Innovation Works
  Matt Ridley
• Loonshots
  Safi Bahcall

Leadership & Management

• An Elegant Puzzle
  William Larson
• The Great CEO Within
  Matt Mochary
• Gridiron Genius
  Michael Lombardi
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  Ben Horowitz
• High Output Management
  Andy Grove
• Leadership Strategy and Tactics
  Jock Willink
• Managing Humans
  Michael Lopp
• The Meaning Revolution
  Fred Kofman
• Radical Candor
  Kim Scott
• Resilient Management
  Lara Hogan
• The Score Takes Care of Itself
  Bill Waslh

Philosophy

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
  Naval
• Finite and Infinite Games
  James P. Carse
• The Great Mental Models Vol.1&2
  Shane Parrish
• The Sovereign Individual
  James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg

Psychology

• The Algebra of Happiness
  Scott Galloway
• Atomic Habits
  James Clear
• Drive
  Daniel H. Pink
• The Elephant in the Brain
  Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
  Robert Cialdini
• Predictably Irrational
  Dan Ariely
• Talking to Strangers
  Malcolm Gladwell
• When
  Daniel H. Pink

Science

• The Beginning of Infinity
  David Deutsch
• The Fabric of Reality
  David Deutsch
• Genome
  Matt Ridley
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
  Lawrence M. Krauss
• Life 3.0
  Max Tegmark