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Here are the books I've read or listened to recently. Most books were good. Some were great. Few were exceptional. 

Please send me recommendations; my antilibrary is too small. 

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2024

  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (audiobook)

  • Mastery by Robert Greene (physical)

  • The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (physical)

  • The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley (physical)

  • The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle (audiobook)

  • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy on Leadership by Bill Walsh (physical)

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (audiobook)

  • Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World by Brian Hooks and Charles Koch

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman (physical)

  • Anything You Want by Derek Sivers  (physical)

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2023

  • The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal (physical)

  • Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson (audiobook)

  • Viral Loop by Adam L. Penenberg (physical)

  • Merchant Kings by Stephen R. Brown (kindle)

  • Boron Letters by Bond Halbert and Gary Halbert (kindle)

  • Breakthrough Copywriting by David Garfinkel (kindle)

  • Super Founders by Ali Tamaseb (audiobook)

  • George Washington by Paul Johnson (physical)

  • Churchill by Paul Johnson (kindle)

  • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (physical)

  • On Writing by Stephen King (physical)

  • The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks (physical)

  • I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard (physical)

  • The 50th Law by Robert Greene (physical)

  • Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (physical)

  • Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell (audiobook)

  • Power vs Force by David Hawkins (physical)

  • Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, Co Founders of Hubspot (physical)

  • The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford (audiobook)

  • Web3 Marketing by Amanda Cassatt (audiobook)

  • It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (kindle)

  • Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (kindle)

  • High Output Management by Andy Grove (physical)

  • What Every Body is saying by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins (physical)

  • Feeling is the Secret by Neville Goddard (audiobook)

  • Influence by Robert Cialdini (audiobook)

  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (audiobook)

  • Hooked by Nir Eyal (physical)

  • Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg (kindle)

  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (audiobook)

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2022

  • Invested by Charles Schwab (physical)

  • Mastery by Robert Greene (audiobook)

  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (audiobook)

  • Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains by Nathan Schneider and Vitalik Buterin (physical)

  • Debt: The First 5000 years by David Graeber (physical)

  • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers by Robert Fitzpatrick (physical)

  • How to Own Your Own Mind by Napoleon Hill (audiobook)

  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins (physical)

  • Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi (audiobook)

  • Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza (physical)

  • The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene (audiobook)

  • How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher (physical)

  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell (physical)

  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (physical)

  • Dune by Frank Herbert (audiobook)

  • The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (physical)

  • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay (kindle)

  • Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower (kindle)

  • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifidean Ammous (physical)

  • The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (physical)

  • The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern (audiobook)

  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto (kindle)

  • The Virgin Way by Richard Branson (audiobook)

  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine (audiobook)

  • The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni (kindle)

  • Invention:  A life by James Dyson (audiobook)

  • 100m Offers by Alex Hormozi (kindle)

  • The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati

  • Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte (physical)

  • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen (audiobook)

  • Early Austrian Economics by Louis Rukeyser (audiobook)

  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (audiobook)

  • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis (kindle)

  • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis (kindle)                                 

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2021

  • The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

  • The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

  • Recruiting by Ryan Breslow

  • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu

  • Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization, Volume 3 by Will Durant

  • Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

  • The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson

  • Fundraising by Ryan Breslow

  • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman

  • Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 Part II by Carlo M. Cipolla

  • Liberty and Property by Ludwig Von Mises

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

  • Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder

  • River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins

  • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

  • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

  • What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman

  • The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

  • Power Moves: Lessons from Davos by Adam Grant

  • The Story of Civilization VII: The Age of Reason by Will Durant (Select chapters - Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, The Summons to Reason, The Rise and Fall of Francis Bacon, The Changing Economy, The Coming of Baroque, Cervantes, Richelieu, Tentatives of Reason, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, The Epicurean Priest, Rene Descartes)

  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

  • Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant

  • The Dip by Seth Godin

  • The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin

  • Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez

  • The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow

  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

  • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story by Frank Slootman

  • The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant

  • Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman 

  • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley

  • #BreakIntoVC by Bradley Miles

  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

  • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike

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2020

  • The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

  • Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

  • How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough

  • As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

  • Who is Michael Ovitz? By Michael Ovitz

  • Leading by Sir Alex Ferguson and Michael Moritz

  • Napoleon by Vincent Cronin

  • Startupland by Mikkel Svane and Carlyle Adler

  • The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

  • Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

  • The New New Thing by Michael Lewis

  • Founders at Work by Jessica Livngston

  • The Third Door by Alex Banayan

  • Genghiz Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

  • 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

  • Screw It Let's Do It by Richard Branson

  • Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss

  • Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins

  • Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

  • How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsen Hamid

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki 

  • Zen Mind: Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

  • The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis

  • The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley

  • Decode and Conquer by Lewis C. Lin

  • Alibaba The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

  • How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban

  • Sam Walton by John Huey and Sam Walton

  • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

  • Cracking the PM Intevrview by Gayle Laakman McDowell and Jackie Bravo

  • The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks

  • Secrets of Sandhill Road by Scott Kupor

  • Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

  • Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • Good Profit by Charles Koch

  • An Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

  • Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

  • Anti Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • Autobiography of Nicola Tesla by Nicola Tesla

  • How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

  • Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
     

2019​​

  • The Last Days of Night: A Novel by Graham Moore

  • Lee Kuan Yew: the grandmasters insights in China, the United States, and the world by Graham Allison

  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

  • Einstein: His Life and Universe  by Sir Walter Isaacson

  • The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A Normal

  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

  • Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman

  • The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley

  • Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan

  • Reboot: The Art of Leadership and Growing Up by Jerry Colonna 

  • Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  • Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

  • Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark

  • The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

  • Mindset: The new Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

  • Mozart by Peter Gay

  • The Future is Asian by Parag Khanna

  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacon


​2018

  • Leonardo Da Vinci by Sir Walter Isaacson

  • Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Sir Walter Isaacson

  • Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harrari

  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari

  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight

  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashleey Vance

  • Fear Part 1 by Bob Woodward

  • 12 Rules of Life by Jordan Peterson

  • You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires Kindle Edition by Randall Lane

  • Becoming Ageless: The Four Secrets To Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever by Strauss Zelnick

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