Reading List

Reading list

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
• Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
• Start With Why by Simon Sinek
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Christensen
• Blue Ocean Strategy by Renée Mauborgne
• High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
• So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
• Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Hooked by Eyal Nir
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
• Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne
• Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education by Marvin Minsky
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
• The Southwest Airlines Way by Jody Hoffer Gittell
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win by Steve Blank
• Influence by Robert Cialdini
• Mind on Statistics by Robert F. Heckard Jessica M. Utts
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
• The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
• The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali
• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better by Tyler Cowen
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah HarariUtopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
• A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
• An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations by William Playfair
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.
• Essays Of Warren Buffett: Lessons For Corporate America by Warren Buffett.
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport.
• Making of Europe: Conquest Colonization and Cultural Change 950-1350 by Robert Bartlett
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
• Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education by Marvin Minsky
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger
• Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos by Thomas Petzinger Jr.
• The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell WaldropAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
• Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
• The Startup Way by Eric Ries
• Democracy in America: Abridged Edition by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
• The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive during the Collapse of the Welfare State by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
• Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming
• Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom