My Living Bookshelf

The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions

Victor Haghani, James White

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

Rob Fitzpatrick

20 highlights

Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence

Robert J. Samuelson

14 highlights

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Carmine Gallo

1 highlight

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)

Matt Ridley

1 highlight

The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom (English Version) 2nd Edition

G. Ng

54 highlights

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

13 highlights

10 Commandments Of A-List Copywriters: Control-Beating Breakthroughs From Gary Bencivenga, Gene Schwartz, Jim Rutz & More

John Bejakovic

Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

Russell D. Roberts

7 highlights

Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

Jocko Willink

21 highlights

Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

Andrew Wilkinson

Confessions of an Advertising Man

David Ogilvy

3 highlights

On the Genealogy of Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Alan J. Swensen

The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns

Mohnish Pabrai

7 highlights

Snow Crash: A Novel

Neal Stephenson

Freakonomics Rev Ed: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Paul Graham

How to Lie with Statistics

Darrell Huff

The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity

Russell Roberts

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Ryan Holiday

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Big Debt Crises

Ray Dalio

Stories That Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business

Kindra Hall

Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis

Russell D. Roberts

Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Scott

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

Matt Ridley

The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien

The Code. the Evaluation. the Protocols: Striving to Become an Eminently Qualified Human

Jocko Willink, Dave Berke, Sarah Armstrong

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Ray Dalio

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard W. Hamming

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

Tim Harford

The Tiny MBA: 100 Very Short Lessons about the Long Game of Business

Alex Hillman

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

Brad Stone

The Network State: How To Start a New Country

Balaji Srinivasan

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Scott Adams

30 highlights

Great Expectations (Signature Editions)

Charles Dickens

Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

Noah Kagan

1 highlight

How to win friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

10 highlights

Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

April Dunford

14 highlights

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien

25 highlights

Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Customers

Michele Hansen

3 highlights

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

4 highlights

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Nadia Eghbal

40 highlights

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

Kelly McGonigal

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio

Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship

Mahan Khalsa, Randy Illig

1 highlight

Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Timothy Ferriss

The Focus Project: The Not So Simple Art of Doing Less

Erik Qualman

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, Misha Talavera

Sam Walton: Made In America

Sam Walton

How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital: The Four Rules You Must Break To Get Rich

Nathan Latka

5 highlights

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

Scott Adams

6 highlights

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

3 highlights

Mastery

Robert Greene

1 highlight

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

68 highlights

The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

Andrew Chen

1 highlight

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

Russell D. Roberts

12 highlights

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke