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Currently reading:
  • Founding Sales by Peter Kazanjy

This is a list of books I've read in the last couple years. For each year, they are roughly ordered by how much I liked them.

I try to read a bit every day but in reality there will be weeks where I don't read at all and then weeks where I knock out several books.

2021
  • Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
2020
  • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
  • Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Weiner
  • We Learn Nothing: Essays by Tim Kreider
  • Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
  • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by Derek Sivers
  • Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Out Success by Adam Grant
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • (reread) Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish
  • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
  • (reread) So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • (reread) Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
  • (reread) Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman
  • The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
  • The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
  • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
  • Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
  • Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams by Yevgeniy Brikman
  • The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
  • High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  • Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson
  • Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanson
  • (reread) The Internet of Money Volume One by Andreas Antonopoulos
  • (reread) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
  • Beyond Coffee: A Sustainable Guide to Nootropics, Adaptogens, and Mushrooms by James Beshara
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
  • Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
2019
  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
  • Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
  • Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America by Andrew Yang
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  • 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works——A True Story by Dan Harriss
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World——and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling, Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling
  • University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute by John B. Boles
  • How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
  • The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life by JL Collins
  • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
  • A History of Silicon Valley: The Greatest Creation of Wealth in the History of the Planet by Arun Rao and Piero Scaruffi
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
  • The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
  • The Internet of Money Volume One by Andreas Antonopoulos
  • The Internet of Money Volume Two by Andreas Antonopoulos
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
  • Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
  • China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
  • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman
  • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt

I started reading more and intentionally tracking what I read in early 2019.