1929 Adnrew Ross SOrkin
★★★★★
1929
Adnrew Ross SOrkin · 2026
King Warrior Magician Lover
King Warrior Magician Lover
Unknown · 2025 · now reading
The Goldfinch
Unknown · 2025
A Man in Full
Unknown · 2025
11/22/63
Stephen King · 2025
The Cost of These Dreams Wright Thompson
The Cost of These Dreams
Wright Thompson · 2025 · now reading
THe Maniac
Unknown · 2025
The Five Types of Wealth Sahil Bloom
★★★★★
The Five Types of Wealth
Sahil Bloom · 2025
The Humble Investor Dan Rasmussen
★★★★★
The Humble Investor
Dan Rasmussen · 2025
The Book of Life J Krishnamurti
★★★★★
The Book of Life
J Krishnamurti · 2025 · now reading
Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges
★★★★★
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges · 2025
The Great Gatsby
★★★★★ “Audible Jake Gylenhall”
Recommended The Great Gatsby
Unknown · 2024 · now reading
The Great God Pan Arthur Machen
★★★★★
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen · 2024
★★★★★
The Three Marriages
David Whyte · 2024
Good Work
Paul Millerd · 2024 · now reading
Retail Options Trading Euan Sinclair
★★★★★ Recommended
Retail Options Trading
Euan Sinclair · 2024
★★★★★
Mastery
Robert Greene · 2024
Life Begins After Forty
★★★★★ Recommended
Life Begins After Forty
Unknown · 2024
The Stairway to Heaven Tara Springer
★★★★★
The Stairway to Heaven
Tara Springer · 2024
★★★★★ “Brutal. The Judge…”
Recommended Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 2024
★★★★★ “My faovirte group of characters in any novel”
Recommended Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurty · 2024
★★★★★ Recommended
Kafka on the Shore
Murakami · 2024
On Creativity Rick Rubin
★★★★★ “The Dao”
Recommended On Creativity
Rick Rubin · 2024
★★★★★ “Quit cul de sacs, go through other Dips”
Recommended The Dip
Seth Godin · 2024
★★★★★ “No one is perfect”
The Bible
YHWH · 2024
★★★★★
Crossing the Unknown Sea
David Whyte · 2023
Holotropic Breathwork satnislov?
Holotropic Breathwork
satnislov? · 2023
★★★★★
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon · 2023
★★★★★ “He’s insane. Driven. ”
Recommended Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson · 2023
The Self Driven Child
“Let your kids live their own lives and make their own choices”
The Self Driven Child
Unknown · 2023 · now reading
★★★★★ “Go with life’s flow, but give it everything. Its not passive”
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A Singer · 2023
★★★★★ “We are limitless beings”
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach · 2023
The Secret Language of Trees
★★★★★
The Secret Language of Trees
Unknown · 2023
Breakthrough David Nurse
★★★★★ “Formula for breakthrough. Cheesy but some good pts. Like the go giver ”
Breakthrough
David Nurse · 2023
The World Behind the World Erik Hoel
★★★★★ “There is free will. Causal emergence”
Recommended The World Behind the World
Erik Hoel · 2023
The Crossing Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy · 2023 · now reading
★★★★★ “Similar vibes to Lonesome Dove”
Recommended All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy · 2023
★★★★★
Becoming Animal
David Abram · 2023
Kevin Kelly Life Lessons Kevin Kelly
★★★★★ Recommended
Kevin Kelly Life Lessons
Kevin Kelly · 2023
★★★★★ “Holy shit. This book is just about life.”
Recommended Brothers Karazamov
Leo Tolstoy · 2023
★★★★★ “Basic principles > specifics. Run and Lift”
Recommended Outlive
Peter Attia · 2023
Financial Hacking
Unknown · 2023
Chronicles Bob Dylan
★★★★★ “Deep deep guy but also provincial”
Recommended Chronicles
Bob Dylan · 2023
Systematic Trading Rob Carver
★★★★★ “Really good base ”
Recommended Systematic Trading
Rob Carver · 2023
Chatter
Ethan Cross · 2023
How Will You Measure Your Life Clayton Christensen
★★★★★ “Be deliberate in your life”
How Will You Measure Your Life
Clayton Christensen · 2023
★★★★★ “Practical guide for mediation and dealing with emotions”
Recommended Fear
Thich Nhat Hanh · 2023
★★★★★ “There are Ways to be long vol without bleeding too kuch”
The Second Leg Down
Hari Krishnan · 2023
Breathe Rickson Gracie
★★★★★ “Intuition and hard work win”
Recommended Breathe
Rickson Gracie · 2023
Do the Work Steve Pressfield
★★★★★ “Overcome resistance, everyone has to”
Recommended Do the Work
Steve Pressfield · 2023
Never Finished David Goggins
★★★★★
Never Finished
David Goggins · 2023
Shantaram Greg David
★★★★★ “Still don’t love it but great writing”
Shantaram
Greg David · 2022
Investing Amid Low Exptected Returns Antti Illmanen
★★★★★ “Be patient. Diversify. Add Trend”
Investing Amid Low Exptected Returns
Antti Illmanen · 2022
★★★★★ “It’s about to get faked up globally. End of “more””
The End of the World is Just Beginning
Peter Zeihan · 2022
★★★★★ “Ways of thinking are REALITY. What is Quality?”
Recommended Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance
Robert Persig · 2022
★★★★★ “Moderation, going with the flow, awareness”
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu · 2022
★★★★★ “there is no independent space or time...”
Recommended Reality is not what is Seems
Carlo Rovelli · 2022
★★★★★ “Level 5 Leaders are Humble”
Recommended Good to Great
Jim Collins · 2022
★★★★★ “Set up an inevitible flywheel to your business”
Recommended Turning the Flywheel
Jim Collins · 2022
How to be Truly Productive Andres from Acquisition Lab
★★★★★
How to be Truly Productive
Andres from Acquisition Lab · 2022
Traction Geno Wickman
★★★★★
Traction
Geno Wickman · 2022
The Go Giver
★★★★★ “create value to get value”
The Go Giver
Unknown · 2022
4,000 Weeks Oliver Burke
★★★★★ “accept that time is finite”
4,000 Weeks
Oliver Burke · 2022
Blue Highways
Unknown · 2022
The Art of Engineering Richard Hamming
★★★★★
The Art of Engineering
Richard Hamming · 2022
The EOS Life Gino Wickman
★★★★★
The EOS Life
Gino Wickman · 2022
★★★★★
Buy then Build
Walker Deibel · 2022
★★★★★ “exactly how i have been feeling. great book”
Recommended The Pathless Path
Paul Millerd · 2022
★★★★★
Becoming Trader Joe
Joe Coloumbe · 2022
Upinishads
Unknown · 2022
★★★★★ “Jed mckenna esque”
Awareness
Anthony de Mello · 2021
Expected Returns on Major Asset Classes Antti Ilmanen
★★★★★ “diversify the risk premiums you are collecting”
Expected Returns on Major Asset Classes
Antti Ilmanen · 2021
★★★★★ Recommended
Norwegian Wood
Unknown · 2021
BlueFishing Steve Sims
★★★★★ “Passion + Persistence + Relationships”
Recommended BlueFishing
Steve Sims · 2021
Exhaltation Ted Chiang
★★★★★ “Title Story Alone worth the Read”
Recommended Exhaltation
Ted Chiang · 2021
Project Hail Mary Andy Weir
★★★★★ Recommended
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
Lifestyle Investor Justin Donald
★★★★★
Lifestyle Investor
Justin Donald · 2021
The Fifth Science Exurbia
★★★★★
The Fifth Science
Exurbia · 2021
Breath James Nestor
★★★★★ “Breath through your nose, less often and slowly. Exhale fully. Use your jaw.”
Recommended Breath
James Nestor · 2021
The Four Agreements
★★★★★
The Four Agreements
Unknown · 2021
Yearbook Seth Rogen
★★★★★ Recommended
Yearbook
Seth Rogen · 2021
★★★★★ “Life lives between order and chaso. A place of self renewing change. I thought of it almost as running (constantly "falling" but moving forward.”
Complexity
Unknown · 2021
Flash Crash Liam Vaughn
★★★★★ “kid builds program to spoof markets and makes 70mm!”
Recommended Flash Crash
Liam Vaughn · 2021
Beware of the Dog Brian Moore
★★★★★ Recommended
Beware of the Dog
Brian Moore · 2021
Epigenetics
Cath Ennis · 2021
Total Rugby Greenwood?
★★★★★
Total Rugby
Greenwood? · 2021
★★★★★ Recommended
The Laws of Trading
Augustin Lebron · 2021
The Call of Cthulhu HP Lovecraft
★★★★★ “universe is weird and we know nothing”
Recommended The Call of Cthulhu
HP Lovecraft · 2021
The Richest Man in Babylon
★★★★★
The Richest Man in Babylon
Unknown · 2021
Cryptonmicon Neal Stephenson
★★★★★ “interesting, good, but confusing and long”
Recommended Cryptonmicon
Neal Stephenson · 2020
The Unfettered Mind Takuan Soho
★★★★★ “Do not rest your mind/desire”
The Unfettered Mind
Takuan Soho · 2020
Soros on Soros George Soros
★★★★★ “ok but crash of 2008 better”
Soros on Soros
George Soros · 2020
★★★★★ “Fallibility and reflexivity”
Recommended The Crash of 2008
George Soros · 2020
Greenlights Mathew McConaghy
★★★★★ “guy can tell a story”
Recommended Greenlights
Mathew McConaghy · 2020
★★★★★ Recommended
The New Market Wizards
Jack D Schwager · 2020
River of Doubt Candice Millard
★★★★★ Recommended
River of Doubt
Candice Millard · 2020
Get Together Stripe Press
★★★★★ “How to start and grow a community”
Recommended Get Together
Stripe Press · 2020
★★★★★ Recommended
Positional Option Trading
Euan Sinclair · 2020
★★★★★ “All financial assets (all power) is one big carry trade.”
The Rise of Carry
Tim Lee, Jamie Lee & Kevin Coldiron · 2020
★★★★★
The Art of Learning
Josh Weitzmann · 2020
A Wild Sheep Chase Haruki Murakami
★★★★★
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami · 2020
Ghengis Khan
Unknown · 2020
★★★★★
Essentialism
Greg Mckeown · 2020
★★★★★ “Ex CIA Agent works for DEA fighting Mexican Cartel”
The Power of the Dog
Don Wilson · 2020
“Govt on decline, decentralization”
Recommended The Sovereign Individual
Davidson & Rees-Mogg · 2020
★★★★★ “Prepare relentlessly, learn constantly & choose to be happy regardless of the outcome”
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield · 2020
The 50th Law
Robert Green & 50 Cent · 2020
★★★★★ “slow and steady wins race. doing things correctly and consistently for its own sake”
Recommended What I Talk About when I Talk about Running
Haruki Murakami · 2020
★★★★★ “The baseball coach that changed his life”
Recommended Coach
Michael Lewis · 2020
Headspace Guide to Meditaiton Andy Puddicombe
Headspace Guide to Meditaiton
Andy Puddicombe · 2020
★★★★★
Live the Best Story of Your Life
Bob Litwin · 2020
Spiritual Warfare < Jed McKenna
Spiritual Warfare <
Jed McKenna · 2020
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Jed McKenna
★★★★★ Recommended
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment
Jed McKenna · 2020
★★★★★ Recommended
Spiritual Enlightenment is the Damndest Thing
Jed Mckenna · 2020
Running with Sherman
★★★★★
Running with Sherman
Unknown · 2020
Friendly Ambitious Nerd
★★★★★
Friendly Ambitious Nerd
Unknown · 2020
Horse Trading Ben Green
★★★★★ Recommended
Horse Trading
Ben Green · 2020
★★★★★ “Structures guide your whole life. Have to get out of reacting and into creating.”
Recommended The Path of Least Resistance
Robert Fritz · 2020
Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
★★★★★ “ok book, nothing special”
Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson · 2020
Trading Volatility Euan Sinclair
★★★★★
Trading Volatility
Euan Sinclair · 2019
The Power of Less Leo Babauta
★★★★★
The Power of Less
Leo Babauta · 2019
★★★★★ “Untitled ”
Recommended Lifespan: Aging
David Sinclair · 2019
Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins
★★★★★ “Fictional band in 70s”
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins · 2019
Markets in Profile James Dalton
★★★★★ “Market Auction Process Overview”
Markets in Profile
James Dalton · 2019
Molokai Alan Bennet
★★★★★ “fiction about the leper colony in Hawaii”
Recommended Molokai
Alan Bennet · 2019
★★★★★
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport · 2019
★★★★★ “mob killed kennedy”
Recommended I Heard You Paint Houses
Charles Brandt · 2019
The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
★★★★★ “non physicist look at time”
Recommended The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli · 2019
Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday
★★★★★
Ego is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday · 2019
Am I Being Too Subtle Sam Zell
★★★★★ “jump in and do something!”
Am I Being Too Subtle
Sam Zell · 2019
★★★★★ “offense = defense, israel super aggressive”
Recommended Rise up and Kill First
Ronen Bergman · 2019
★★★★★ “math and trading costs matter”
The Man who Solved the Markets
Greg Zuckerman · 2019
★★★★★ “Robin Williams Bio”
Robin
Dave Itzkoff · 2019
The Great Successor Anna Fifield
★★★★★ Recommended
The Great Successor
Anna Fifield · 2019
Soonish Kelly and Zach Weinersmi
Soonish
Kelly and Zach Weinersmi · 2019
Can't Hurt Me David Groggins
★★★★★ “Extreme discipline”
Can't Hurt Me
David Groggins · 2019
★★★★★ “Unbelievable engineering teamwork and leadership”
Recommended Skunk Works
Ben Rich · 2019
The Forever War Joe Haldeman
★★★★★ Recommended
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman · 2019
★★★★★ “You can always go deeper”
Recommended Zen in the Art of Archery
Eugene Heregel · 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles
★★★★★ Recommended
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2019
The Accidental Universe Alan Lightman
★★★★★
The Accidental Universe
Alan Lightman · 2019
★★★★★ “insane amount of solitude. impossible”
Recommended The Stranger in the Woods
Michael Frinken · 2019
★★★★★ “wisdom is often very counterintuitive”
Recommended Alchemy:
Rory Sutherland · 2019
Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth Nick Murray
★★★★★ “DCA, invest in equities”
Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth
Nick Murray · 2019
★★★★★ “we dont know, does everything have conciousness? all we know is that it DOES feel like something to be”
Conscious
Annika harris · 2019
The Tao of Wu The RZA
★★★★★ “Surprisizingly thoughtful ”
Recommended The Tao of Wu
The RZA · 2019
Ends of the World Peter Brannon
★★★★★ “life can reset...but if it doenst go to 0 it grows back”
Ends of the World
Peter Brannon · 2019
Born Standing Up Steve Martin
Born Standing Up
Steve Martin · 2019
Making Sense of People Sam Barondes
★★★★★
Making Sense of People
Sam Barondes · 2019
Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman
★★★★★ Recommended
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman · 2019
Thinking Twice Mike Maboussin
★★★★★
Thinking Twice
Mike Maboussin · 2019
★★★★★ Recommended
The Absent Superpower
Peter Zeihan · 2019
The Upside of Stress Kelly McGonigal
★★★★★
The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal · 2019
★★★★★ Recommended
The Accidental Superpower
Peter Zeihan · 2019
The Longevity Diet Dr Valter Longo
★★★★★
The Longevity Diet
Dr Valter Longo · 2019
The Warburgs Ron Chernow
★★★★★ Recommended
The Warburgs
Ron Chernow · 2019
Salt Daddy
B Rob · 2019
★★★★★ Recommended
Happiest Toddler on the Block
Dr Harvey Karp · 2019
Dune Frank Herbert
★★★★★ Recommended
Dune
Frank Herbert · 2019
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty Manuel J Smith
★★★★★
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty
Manuel J Smith · 2019
The Married Man S Primer Athol Kay
★★★★★
The Married Man S Primer
Athol Kay · 2019
Everybody Lies Seth Stephens Davidowitz
★★★★★
Everybody Lies
Seth Stephens Davidowitz · 2019
The Messy Marketplace Brent Beshore
★★★★★
The Messy Marketplace
Brent Beshore · 2019
★★★★★
The Billion Dollar Whale
Tom Wright and Brad Hope · 2019
Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
★★★★★ “Powerful story about difference one person can make, dignity of all life”
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson · 2019
The Ivy Portfolio Meb Faber
★★★★★ “simple and evenly distributed ”
The Ivy Portfolio
Meb Faber · 2018
Cathedral of the Wild Boyd Varty
★★★★★ “Meaningful work, cooperation with natives/land, following a trail are themes”
Recommended Cathedral of the Wild
Boyd Varty · 2018
Keto Clarity Jimmy Moore
★★★★★ “Insane amount of fat, medium protein, no carbs.”
Recommended Keto Clarity
Jimmy Moore · 2018
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
★★★★★ “Very well written, fiction but extremely interesting”
Recommended The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2018
★★★★★ “Smart people can be convinced of anything if conditions are right”
Recommended Bad Blood
John Carreyrou · 2018
All Marketers are Liars Seth Godin
★★★★★ “All marketing are stories, we want/like stories, just don�t cross over into fraud”
Recommended All Marketers are Liars
Seth Godin · 2018
Finite and Infinite Games James Carse
★★★★★ “Finite games are by choice, have rules, timelines, worlds�inifnite you are changing all those”
Recommended Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse · 2018
★★★★★ “First in Trilogy, whole thing is an awesome well researched story”
Recommended Dark Forest
Liu Cixin · 2018
The Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday
★★★★★ “Updated version of Stoicism”
Recommended The Obstacle is the Way
Ryan Holiday · 2018
Never Split the Difference Chris Voss
★★★★★ “Ask questions, be sympathetic, anchor low/high, name others fears”
Recommended Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss · 2018
The Courage to be Disliked Ichiro Kashimi
★★★★★ “Everything is how you react to it. Cannot worry or stress over others opinions”
Recommended The Courage to be Disliked
Ichiro Kashimi · 2018
The Most Important Thing Howard Marks
★★★★★ “Cycles cyles cycles”
Recommended The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks · 2018
The Birth of Plenty William Bernstein
★★★★★ “Property Rights, Scientific Rationalism, Capital Markets, Transport/Comms”
Recommended The Birth of Plenty
William Bernstein · 2018
Home Game Michael Lewis
★★★★★ “Good writer, heartfelt, a little boring”
Home Game
Michael Lewis · 2018
Tiger Woods Benedict and Keteyian
★★★★★ “Very well researched, insightful, thorough. Good stories”
Recommended Tiger Woods
Benedict and Keteyian · 2018
Finding Your Way in a New World Martha Beck
★★★★★ “Too hippyish�some good points but didn�t buy in overall”
Finding Your Way in a New World
Martha Beck · 2018
History of the World in 100 Pages
★★★★★ “Big themes, obviously, don�t actually remember too much�”
History of the World in 100 Pages
Unknown · 2018
Fortune's Children, Fall of House Vanderbil Arthur Vanderbilt
★★★★★ “Building gigantic mansions is a great way to destroy wealth”
Recommended Fortune's Children, Fall of House Vanderbil
Arthur Vanderbilt · 2018
Gridiron Genius Michael Lombardi
★★★★★ “Heavily focused on Belicheck but overall very good read, smarty guy”
Recommended Gridiron Genius
Michael Lombardi · 2018
The Aggressive Conservative Investor Whitman
★★★★★ “Old, lots of accounting concepts, most not very useful currently”
The Aggressive Conservative Investor
Whitman · 2018
The Fish that Ate the Whale Rich Cohen
★★★★★ “Hard work, not taking no for answer. Banana very political history in MA”
Recommended The Fish that Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen · 2018
The Laws of Wealth Daniel Crosby
★★★★★ “Basics - have a plan, don�t forecast, control costs, be diversified, seek pro help”
Recommended The Laws of Wealth
Daniel Crosby · 2018
Fire and Fury Michael Wolffe
★★★★★ “Author is biased but crazy stories”
Recommended Fire and Fury
Michael Wolffe · 2018
★★★★★ “see above”
Recommended Death's End
Liu Cixin · 2018
★★★★★ “Capital allocaiton is #1 job, and its not close”
Recommended The Outsiders
William Thorndike · 2018
★★★★★ “Anything that is physically possible will happy as we gain knowledge to do so”
Recommended Beginning of Infinity
David Duetsche · 2018
The Quest of the Simple Life William Dawson
★★★★★ “Fresh air, slow down, learning + self sustainability are timless desires”
Recommended The Quest of the Simple Life
William Dawson · 2018
The Trusted Advisor David Maistel
★★★★★ “Actually care for clients, build trust by being honest when don�t know, etc”
The Trusted Advisor
David Maistel · 2018
Bringing up Bebe Pam Druckerman
★★★★★ “Chill out, let babies have some space, don�t dote immediately, teach patience”
Recommended Bringing up Bebe
Pam Druckerman · 2018
Skagboys Irvine Welsh
★★★★★ “Great fiction book about a bunch of young drug addicts in Scotland”
Recommended Skagboys
Irvine Welsh · 2018
Zero to One
Peter Thiel · 2018
Lake Success Gary Schteyngart
★★★★★ “Funny, a little too contrived, but a lot of interesting insights”
Lake Success
Gary Schteyngart · 2018
★★★★★ “Goes into their backgrounds, why they have their styles”
Recommended Levels of the Game
John McPhee · 2018
The Culture Code Daniel Coyle
★★★★★ “Build safey, share vulnerability, shared purpose or goal”
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle · 2018
Sense of Style Steven Pinker
★★★★★ “Rules are important, but breaking them is too. Hodge podge of what works”
Sense of Style
Steven Pinker · 2018
Hero with 1000 Faces Joseph Campbell
★★★★★ “An attempt to explain the unexplaninable, the infinite, the life force”
Recommended Hero with 1000 Faces
Joseph Campbell · 2018
Anything You Want Derek Sivers
★★★★★ “Do what is authentic to you, helps attracti following/guide decisions”
Recommended Anything You Want
Derek Sivers · 2018
Designing Your Life Bill Burnett
★★★★★ “Need to take active control, seek out what is going to work for you”
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett · 2018
The Little Book that Beats the Market Joel Greenblatt
★★★★★ “Basket of 25 stocks is enough. 2-3 years underpformanice but over time works”
The Little Book that Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt · 2018
Thinking in Bets Annie Duke
★★★★★ “Use probabiliyt, be comfortable with uncertainty”
Recommended Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke · 2018
Meaningful Work Sean Akinose
★★★★★ “Meaning in work is very important and can itself lead to differentiation/success”
Recommended Meaningful Work
Sean Akinose · 2018
Bricky by Brick David Roberston
★★★★★ “Tried to grow, failed, had to go back to basics and restart innovation”
Recommended Bricky by Brick
David Roberston · 2018
Legacy of Ashes Tim Weiner
★★★★★ “Shady, disorganized, relied on individuals wills to remain in existence”
Recommended Legacy of Ashes
Tim Weiner · 2018
A Man for All Markets Ed Thorp
★★★★★ “Rational thinking, discipline and immature markets recipe for massive success”
Recommended A Man for All Markets
Ed Thorp · 2018
How to Change Your Mind Mike Pollian
★★★★★ “Promising area of research, can help persepctive etc”
Recommended How to Change Your Mind
Mike Pollian · 2018
★★★★★ “CEO role is to empower people and create a supportive structure to allow flourish”
Recommended Creativity Inc
Ed Catmull · 2018
The Road to Character David Brooks
★★★★★ “Look at the things people do that are hard to justify without internal char”
The Road to Character
David Brooks · 2018
Skin in the Game Taleb
★★★★★ “He is arrogant but most of ideas have some merti”
Recommended Skin in the Game
Taleb · 2018
I Contain Multitidues Ed Yong
★★★★★ “Super important, symbiotic relationship, especially in the guy”
Recommended I Contain Multitidues
Ed Yong · 2018
★★★★★ “Pushup, pullup, squat, bridge, leg hang, handstand pushup”
Recommended Convict Conditioning
Paul Wade · 2018
Happiest Baby on the Block Harvey Karm
★★★★★ “Five S's: Shush, swing, side, shake, suck”
Happiest Baby on the Block
Harvey Karm · 2018
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan
★★★★★ “Far and Near east much more historically important than currently emphasized”
Recommended The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · 2017
The North Water Ian McGuire
★★★★★ “Good not great story�read on plane was perfect”
Recommended The North Water
Ian McGuire · 2017
Wisdom of Psychopaths Kevin Dutton
★★★★★ “yes, unemtoional rationality can help in certain fields”
Wisdom of Psychopaths
Kevin Dutton · 2017
Principles Ray Dalio
★★★★★ “seek truth. Follow rules + amend rules as you go. Too simple�”
Principles
Ray Dalio · 2017
Black Edge Sheelah Kolhatkar
★★★★★ “Bad dudes in a shady industry. ”
Recommended Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar · 2017
East of Eden John Steinback
★★★★★ “Cain + Abel original sin and how people have both good and bad in them”
Recommended East of Eden
John Steinback · 2017
The Politics of Resentment katherine Cramer
★★★★★ “its rural vs urban and ppl disliking govt "freeloaders" and interference”
Recommended The Politics of Resentment
katherine Cramer · 2017
★★★★★ “Very philosophical, love process, do things for yourself, reach potential”
Recommended Jonathan Living Seagull
Richard Bach · 2017
Free Will Sam Harris
★★★★★ “everything is genes or environment, no "I" at center, have to realize this”
Recommended Free Will
Sam Harris · 2017
★★★★★ “95% of time nothing wrong, all in head”
Recommended Healing Back Pain
John Sarno · 2017
★★★★★ “Any obstacles can be overcome + turned into strength. JUST DO IT”
Recommended Eyes Wide Open
Isaac Lidsky · 2017
Barking up the Wrong Tree Eric Barker
★★★★★ “weakness can be strength, why grit matters, how to cooperate”
Barking up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker · 2017
For the Love of Money Sam Polk
★★★★★ “Money cant buy happiness! Duh!”
Recommended For the Love of Money
Sam Polk · 2017
Grit Angela Duckworth
★★★★★ “Grit is biggest predictor of succes”
Grit
Angela Duckworth · 2017
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
★★★★★ “Philosophically abou thow nothing is repeated or lasting, hence "lightness" unbearable”
Recommended The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 2017
Billion Dollar Spy David Hoffman
★★★★★ “Tolk defected, approached CIA himself, became amazing SPY”
Recommended Billion Dollar Spy
David Hoffman · 2017
Winning Bond Strategy Larry Swedroe
★★★★★ “Dry but good overview, esp why u would want manager”
Winning Bond Strategy
Larry Swedroe · 2017
The Course of Love Alain de Botton
★★★★★ “Starts out lust, excitement. How do you get through the happily ever after”
Recommended The Course of Love
Alain de Botton · 2017
Passage Meditation Eknath Easwaran
★★★★★ “Use passages/poems/mantras instead of winging it”
Recommended Passage Meditation
Eknath Easwaran · 2017
Life 3.0 Max Tegmark
★★★★★ “AI, What is conciousness, how do we navigate the waters”
Recommended Life 3.0
Max Tegmark · 2017
★★★★★ “storytelling is everything about humans”
Sapiens
Yuval Harari · 2017
Investing: The Last Liberal Art Robert Hagstrom
★★★★★ “Munger Mental models, biological systems, chaos, reflexivity, psychology, narrative”
Recommended Investing: The Last Liberal Art
Robert Hagstrom · 2017
Eloquence Mark Forsyth
★★★★★ “Too cutesey, didn�t get much practical out of it (except always rhyme)”
Eloquence
Mark Forsyth · 2017
Other People's Money: The Biz of Finance John Kay
★★★★★ “Bankers have moral hazard, lose $ just lose job, mamke $ make $$”
Recommended Other People's Money: The Biz of Finance
John Kay · 2017
The Best Investment Writing Marc Faber
★★★★★ “Hard to remember specifics but many very good”
Recommended The Best Investment Writing
Marc Faber · 2017
Discipline Equals Freedom Jocko Willink
★★★★★ “the more you are disciplined the greater freedom you have in life”
Recommended Discipline Equals Freedom
Jocko Willink · 2017
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Rich Ruback
★★★★★ “make money when you buy not grow/sell. Compare to boostrap”
Recommended HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
Rich Ruback · 2017
Homo Deus Yuval Harari
★★★★★ “Focus on AI, Data-ism, immortality�will we replace ourselves with technology?”
Recommended Homo Deus
Yuval Harari · 2017
The Immortal Irishman Timothy Egan
★★★★★ “Rose against british rule (failed) but became civil war hero before going west”
Recommended The Immortal Irishman
Timothy Egan · 2017
Requiem for the American Dream Noam Chomsky
★★★★★ “Why? Democracy, economy, special interests, fear and power�etc”
Requiem for the American Dream
Noam Chomsky · 2017
The Inevetible Kevin Kelly
★★★★★ “Optomistic read about virtual reality, on demand economy, AI”
Recommended The Inevetible
Kevin Kelly · 2017
Super Sad Love Story Gary Shteyngart
★★★★★ “diff people get what they need from each other while world falls apart”
Recommended Super Sad Love Story
Gary Shteyngart · 2017
The Brain the Changes Itself Norman Doidge
★★★★★ “Brian much more plastic/powerful than thought before”
Recommended The Brain the Changes Itself
Norman Doidge · 2017
Chaos Monkey Antonio Martinez
★★★★★ “all same game -- facebook stuff (algos for ads) really interesting”
Recommended Chaos Monkey
Antonio Martinez · 2017
Transatlantic Colum Mcann
★★★★★ “Like the author, cant remember much of story�was decent read”
Transatlantic
Colum Mcann · 2017
Dark Money Jane Meyer
★★★★★ “Not good�corporations and Super Pacs�Billionaires”
Recommended Dark Money
Jane Meyer · 2017
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson
★★★★★ “Just accept who/what you are, live with the lemons, keep going anyway”
Recommended The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson · 2017
★★★★★ “Uber competetive and knew exactly what he wanted whole life”
Recommended Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen · 2017
How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big Scott Adams
★★★★★ “Try a lot of things, be open to failure, learn persuasion techniques”
How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams · 2017
The Practicing Mind Thomas Sterner
★★★★★ “Love the process, love the journey, forget results”
Recommended The Practicing Mind
Thomas Sterner · 2017
★★★★★ “first of 3 books - aliens on way and have stopped nanotechnological progress”
Recommended The Three Body Problem
Cixin Liu · 2017
The Omnivore Dilemma Mike Pollan
★★★★★ “Simple stuff�should eat locally grown real food”
Recommended The Omnivore Dilemma
Mike Pollan · 2017
Atlas Cloud David Mitchell
★★★★★ “Very unique, a little hard to follow but pretty good fiction”
Recommended Atlas Cloud
David Mitchell · 2017
The Foundation Isaac Asimov
★★★★★ “Foundation created to shephard humanity through 1k years darkness”
Recommended The Foundation
Isaac Asimov · 2017
The $100 Dollar Startup Chris Guillebeau
★★★★★ “Lots of opportunity at low cost�”
The $100 Dollar Startup
Chris Guillebeau · 2017
The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohelleben
★★★★★ “how trees feel, communicate�much deeper life than expected”
Recommended The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohelleben · 2017
The Path - Chinese Philosophers Michael Puett
★★★★★ “Centers around harvard course, dao-ism, buddism, how to lead good life”
Recommended The Path - Chinese Philosophers
Michael Puett · 2017
The Psychadelic Explorer's Guide James Fadiman
★★★★★ “Opens up to spiritual experiences, realizing how brain works, living in present”
Recommended The Psychadelic Explorer's Guide
James Fadiman · 2017
Devil's Bargain Joshua Green
★★★★★ “literally crazy story of bannon and trump running campaign”
Recommended Devil's Bargain
Joshua Green · 2017
Waking Up Sam Harris
★★★★★ “meditate, pay attnetion to present moment, ethics matter”
Recommended Waking Up
Sam Harris · 2017
Pre-Suasion Robert Cialdini
★★★★★ “Prime people to receive info, repetition, narratives”
Recommended Pre-Suasion
Robert Cialdini · 2017
SPQR Mary Beard
★★★★★ “Written from perspective of common people”
SPQR
Mary Beard · 2016
★★★★★ “awesome book, great guy, easy read”
Recommended Shoe Dog
Phil Knight · 2016
Door Magda Szab
★★★★★ “short but powerful, big themes”
Recommended Door
Magda Szab · 2016
Lone Survivor Marcus Lattrell
★★★★★ “quick easy ready, nothing groundbreaking”
Lone Survivor
Marcus Lattrell · 2016
The Patriarch David Nasaw
★★★★★ “long, boring and tediuous in middle but interesting”
Recommended The Patriarch
David Nasaw · 2016
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
★★★★★ “well written”
Recommended Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann · 2016
★★★★★ “awesome life story, extremely interesting”
Recommended Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · 2016
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
★★★★★ “Over the top but thought it was good. Sad.”
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2016
Extreme Leadership Jacko Willink
★★★★★ “Absolutely everything is up to you as the leader”
Extreme Leadership
Jacko Willink · 2016
★★★★★ “good look into North Korea, good but gets unrealistic”
Recommended The Orphan Masters Son
Adam Johnson · 2016
All the Evils of This World Jared Dillian
★★★★★ “over the top, crazy, what youd expet”
All the Evils of This World
Jared Dillian · 2016
★★★★★ “Browder turns out to be a hero, very interesting”
Recommended Red Notice
Bill Browder · 2016
The 1% Doctrine Ron Suskind
★★★★★ “Dick Cvheney super hawk, huge influence on US”
The 1% Doctrine
Ron Suskind · 2016
QB: My Life Behind the Spiral Steve Young
★★★★★ “was ok, pretty boring/vanilla but hes awesome”
QB: My Life Behind the Spiral
Steve Young · 2016
How to be Your Dog's Best Friend Monks of New Skete
★★★★★ “Treat your dog with respect but as sub”
Recommended How to be Your Dog's Best Friend
Monks of New Skete · 2016
John Adams David McCullough
★★★★★ “good, pretty boring, he cared a lot about honor/fame”
John Adams
David McCullough · 2016
★★★★★ “about hard work, team work, becoming a man”
Recommended Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown · 2016
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
★★★★★ “Fun fiction”
Recommended Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson · 2016
Drive Daniel Pink
★★★★★ “it is not external money - learning, growing etc”
Drive
Daniel Pink · 2016
Once a Runner John Parker
★★★★★ “"best fictoin book about running", was very good”
Recommended Once a Runner
John Parker · 2016
School of Greatness Lewis Howes
★★★★★ “Work hard and help everyone you meet”
School of Greatness
Lewis Howes · 2016
The Courage to Act Ben Bernanke
★★★★★ “Have to think outside the box do whats right”
Recommended The Courage to Act
Ben Bernanke · 2016
But What if We're Wrong Chuck Closterman
★★★★★ “like most of his stuff fun to think about”
Recommended But What if We're Wrong
Chuck Closterman · 2016
Capital Returns Edward Chancelor
★★★★★ “Value works over long cycles”
Recommended Capital Returns
Edward Chancelor · 2016
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS Joby Warrick
★★★★★ “good primer, nothing too insightful”
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick · 2016
The New Age of Computing Erik Brynjolfsson
The New Age of Computing
Erik Brynjolfsson · 2016
★★★★★ “cool look at that part of world, tigers are awesome”
Recommended The Tiger
John Vaillant · 2016
★★★★★ “business is HARD and all about sales”
Recommended Quench Yor Own Thirst
Jim Koch · 2016
Iza's Ballad Magda Szab
★★★★★ “not as good but ok”
Iza's Ballad
Magda Szab · 2016
Team of Rivals Doris Goodwin
★★★★★ “amazing political operator while still plain spoken”
Recommended Team of Rivals
Doris Goodwin · 2016
Choose Yourself (Financially) James Altucher
★★★★★ “work for yourself, come up with 1,000's of ideas”
Choose Yourself (Financially)
James Altucher · 2016
★★★★★ “cool diving stuff, very suspenseful, shows what drives humans”
Recommended Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson · 2016
No Place to Hide (Ed Snowden) Glenn Greenwall
★★★★★ “believes govt overstepping bounds”
Recommended No Place to Hide (Ed Snowden)
Glenn Greenwall · 2016
Unscripted
Unknown
The Attention Span. "Death Wish." Tom Morgan
The Attention Span. "Death Wish."
Tom Morgan
Immunity
Unknown · now reading
Breathe
Unknown
★★★★★ “Many ways to success, all need discipline”
Recommended Hedge Fund Market Wizards
Jack Schwager
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu
War and Chance
Friedman
