Reading List

This list is comprised of books, articles, and other material that I consider interesting. If i find an interesting item, I start reading it. I am not obliged to finish any title or read any title in any particular order.

Currently Consuming:

• The Beginning of Infinity
• Working Backwards
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Walden
• Crucial Conversations
• 48 Laws of Power

2025 Complete:

• The Perfect Kill
• Invention: A Life
• Snow Crash
• Knights Templar
• Crypto Confidential
• The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
• Project Hail Mary
• The Invisible Hook
• Notes From the Undergound
• How to Talk to Anyone

2024 Complete:

• High Output Management
• Mormon Enigma
• Surprise, Kill, Vanish
• Napoleon
• Elon Musk
• Undaunted Courage
• Influence

2023 Complete:

• Build
• Staff Engineer
• Scaling People
• $100M Offers
• $100M Leads
• American Prometheus
• Shoe Dog
• Kitchen Confidential
• The DevOps Handbook
• Benjamin Franklin, An American Life
• Empires Of Light
• Vagabonding
• Autobiography of Malcom X
• History of Western Philosophy
• See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

2022 Complete:

• The Motive
• Designing Data Intensive Applications
• An Elegant Puzzle
• Accelerate
• How Innovation Works
• On Writing
• Thinking in Systems
• Agile Estimating and Planning
• Work Rules
• Team Topologies

2021 Complete:

• The Wright Brothers
• Endurance, Shakeltons Incredible Voyage
• Show Your Work
• Keep Going
• Steal Like An Artist
• Alexander Hamilton
• Grant
• Zero to One
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
• The E-Myth Revisited

2021 Paused:

• Washington: Read Hamilton, listened to a lot on the revolution. Felt like I had a decent grasp of Washingtons life from these sources.
• How to Take Smart Notes: Good book, but not necessary to read the entire book to understand the system.

• Third World to First

• Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit

• Buy Then Build

• Driven to Distraction

• Molecule of More

• Kissinger and the American Centure

• The Art of Money Getting

• Switch Bitch

• Open, an Autobiography

• Rum Diary

• The Four Agreements

• The Fish That Ate The Whale

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

• Mastering Ethereum

• Mastering Bitcoin

• On War

• Moby Dick

• Aeneid

• Stories I Tell Myself

• Chaos Monkeys

• Essentialism

• Prisoners' Inventions

• Indistractable

• Art of Doing Science and Engineering

• Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

• Economics of Innovation Reading List

• Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

• Calling Bullshit Reading List

• Micro Saas Ebook

• Calling Bullshit

• Zero To Sold

• Seeking Wisdom

• Never Ask for an Apology

• Yes to Life

• Bird by Bird

• Make Good Art

• The Power Broker

• Barbarian Days

• Prisoners' Inventions

• Indestructibles: Baby Faces

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

• The Anti-Oedipus Papers

• Zero To Sold

• The Embedded Entrepreneur

• Courage Is Calling

• Snow Crash

• Thriving With Adult ADHD

• The Courage to Be Disliked

• Sculting in Time

• To Sell Is Human

• God and the Atom

• Moonwalking with Einstein

• Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

• Marketing For Startups

• The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

• Startup

• Story

• A Philosophy of Software Design

• The Goal

• The Machine That Changed the World

• The Pirate Coast

• Technological Innovation for the Internet of Things

• The Culture Code

• The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

• A Man for All Markets

• Wild Problems

• How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

• Vagabonding Website

• Leaves Of Grass

• Save the Cat

• Writing Tools

• On Web Typography

• Radical Acceptance

• Node JS Design Patterns

• The Dream Machine

• Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

• How to Run for Local Office

• System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide

• Job Stacking

• Four Thousand Weeks

• Finite and Infinite Games

• Tools for Thought

• Agile Methods. Large-Scale Development, Refactoring, Testing, and Estimation

• Do Scale

• Scaling People

• From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog

• The Alchemy of Finance

• The Psychology of Money

• Mastering the Market Cycle

• The Money Game

• The Most Important Thing

• A Hackers Mind

• Marco Polo Didnt Go There

• A Collection of Familiar Quotations

• Time Off

• Getting Things Done

• The Whole Earth Catalog

• The Systems Bible

• Popular Science

• Delft Design Guide

• A Gentleman in Moscow

• Searching for Bobby Fischer

• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

• The View from the Cheap Seats

• Twelve Years a Slave

• University of Berkshire Hathaway

• The Enormous Room

• Finite and Infinite Games

• The Advantage

• The Guns of August

• Remember December (13 Days of December Book One)

• The Great Degeneration

• User Stories

• Culture Code

• Prisoners of Geography

• The Hundred-Year Marathon

• It's Your Ship

• The New Market Wizards

• Same As Ever

• See No Evil

• Never Give an Inch

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack

• Fanged Noumena

• Hypermedia Systems and Applications

• Ultralearning

• From Epic to Canon

• Hatching Twitter

• The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

• History of God

• Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

• The Master Algorithm

• The Engineering Executive's Primer

• De Gaulle

• The Kill Chain

• The Red Debt

• Read Write Own

• Crossing the Chasm

• High Growth Handbook

• Atomic Habits

• Principles of Corporate Finance

• Margin of Safety

• Range

• Mr. China

• Complexity

• Good to Great

• Complexity

• Snowfall

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition

• The Systems Bible

• The Systems Bible

• The Elements of Mechanical Design

• Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering

• AI Engineering

• The Flywheel Effect

• Sovereign Child

• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

• The Courage to Be Disliked

• Buffett's Early Investments

• Henry J. Kaiser

• Boyd

• Under and Alone

• Inner Excellence

• Man and His Symbols

• Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

• The Trusted Advisor: 20th Anniversary Edition

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