Books

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  • The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban [ref]
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman [ref]
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell [ref]
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport [ref]
  • The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud [ref]
  • No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre [ref]
  • The Mind-Body Problem, with foreword by Jane Smiley by Rebecca Goldstein [ref]
  • Rascal: Making a Difference By Becoming an Original Character by Chris Brady [ref]
  • Habits Of A Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels by Loretta Graziano Breuning [ref]
  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark [ref]
  • Inside the Now: Meditations on Time by Thich Nhat Hanh [ref]
  • The 4 Hour Workweek, Expanded And Updated: Expanded And Updated, With Over 100 New Pages Of Cutting Edge Content by Timothy Ferriss [ref]
  • Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche [ref]
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche [ref]
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann [ref]
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker [ref]
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [ref]
  • The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod [ref]
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson [ref]
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson [ref]
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear [ref]
  • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker [ref]
  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung [ref]
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth [ref]
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown [ref]
  • The Problem of Increasing Human Energy by Nikola Tesla [ref]
  • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell [ref]
  • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [ref]
  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon [ref]
  • The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross [ref]
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone [ref]
  • On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin [ref]
  • The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman [ref]
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [ref]
  • Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger [ref]
  • Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson [ref]
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche [ref]
  • Machine Learning With Random Forests And Decision Trees: A Mostly Intuitive Guide, But Also Some Python by Scott Hartshorn [ref]
  • Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies [ref]
  • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen [ref]
  • Bruce Lee: Artist of Life by Bruce Lee [ref]
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl [ref]
  • Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) by Janice G. Redish [ref]
  • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million by Cliff Lerner [ref]
  • Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology Book 13) by T.L. Taylor [ref]
  • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston [ref]
  • High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove [ref]
  • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery Book 1) by Kevin Horsley [ref]
  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu [ref]
  • Be Here Now by Ram Dass [ref]
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson [ref]
  • Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals: With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Immanuel Kant [ref]
  • On the Shortness of Life by Seneca [ref]
  • The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Francis Hutcheson [ref]
  • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman [ref]
  • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio [ref]
  • Letters to Herodotus and to Menoeceus by Epicurus [ref]
  • 1984 by George Orwell [ref]
  • How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler [ref]
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell [ref]
  • The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale [ref]
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins [ref]
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking [ref]
  • Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There by Les McKeown [ref]
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink [ref]
  • Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes [ref]
  • Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely [ref]
  • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick [ref]
  • Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker [ref]
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson [ref]
  • Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Branson [ref]
  • The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane [ref]
  • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos [ref]
  • How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance by Brian Patrick Eha [ref]
  • Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking by Richard E. Nisbett [ref]
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari [ref]
  • Justification for Murder by Elin Barnes [ref]
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu [ref]
  • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries [ref]
  • Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert T. Kiyosaki [ref]
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind [ref]
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie [ref]
  • Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy [ref]
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey [ref]
  • The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone [ref]
  • How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It by Mark Cuban [ref]
  • Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 by Carol J. Loomis [ref]
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance [ref]
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz [ref]
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson [ref]
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill [ref]
  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom [ref]
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel [ref]