Notebook
I like getting ideas out of my head and onto paper, and following one question into the next. This is a collection of sketches, whiteboards, half-formed plans, and books I've kept along the way.
Systems
Civilization, power, institutions, complexity, economics, technology.
The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
Understanding Complexity
Scott E. Page
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A World Without Work
Daniel Susskind
Life Force
Tony Robbins
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
1984
George Orwell
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A Mind for Numbers
Barbara Oakley
Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience
David Presti
Mind
Philosophy, psychology, spirituality, trauma, attention, behavior.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Be Water, My Friend
Shannon Lee
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle
The Journey into Yourself
Eckhart Tolle
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Fifth Agreement
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Love
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Mastery of Self
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seat of the Soul
Gary Zukav
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Incognito
David Eagleman
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Unfu*k Yourself
Gary John Bishop
Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty
What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
Shad Helmstetter
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Joy
Alexander Lowen
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
Robert Moore
Building
Startups, leadership, sales, negotiation, operating, creative work.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Traction
Gino Wickman
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Exactly What to Say
Phil M. Jones
Secrets of Closing the Sale
Zig Ziglar
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John C. Maxwell
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth
John C. Maxwell
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
How to Own Your Own Mind
Napoleon Hill
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
Let the Elephants Run
David Usher
Fluent in 3 Months
Benny Lewis
Story
Fiction, memoir, myth, biography, narrative.
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Manual of the Warrior of Light
Paulo Coelho
Manuscript Found in Accra
Paulo Coelho
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin
Maurice Leblanc
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
The Inheritors
William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Rick Riordan
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling
The Shiva Trilogy
Amish Tripathi
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Richard Feynman
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Red Notice
Bill Browder
Will
Will Smith
When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead
Jerry Weintraub