Bookshelf
Books, essays, and writings that I've read or started reading in the last year.
Industry
- Steve Anderson, The Bezos Letters
- Javier Blas & Jack Farchy, The World for Sale
- Alfred Chandler, Scale and Scope
- Ron Chernow, Titan
- Bill Gurley, Runnin' Down a Dream
- Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain
- Tae Kim, The Nvidia Way
- Phil Knight, Shoe Dog
- Michael S. Malone, The Big Score
- Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack
- Arvind Panagariya, India Unlimited
- Jeffrey Pfeffer, Dying for a Paycheck
- Brian Potter, The Origins of Efficiency
- Dan Senor & Saul Singer, Start-up Nation
- Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization
- Mark Spitznagel, The Dao of Capital
- Hemant Taneja & Kevin Maney, Unscaled
- Peter Thiel, Zero to One
- James Wallace & Jim Erickson, Hard Drive
- Mike Wilson, The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison
Technology
- Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds
- J. Storrs Hall, Where Is My Flying Car?
- Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
- Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska, The Technological Republic
- Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher, The Age of AI and Our Human Future
- Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine
- Dwarkesh Patel & Gavin Leech, The Scaling Era
Architecture
- Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture
- Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown & Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas
History, Politics & Philosophy
- Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing
- James Burnham, The Machiavellians
- Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
- David G. Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon
- Andrew Davidson, The Invisible Cross
- Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly
- Frantz Fanon, The Damned of the Earth
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
- Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order
- René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
- Ruth Harris, Guru to the World
- Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days
- Johannes Quack, Disenchanting India
- Kurt A. Raaflaub & Robert B. Strassler, The Landmark Julius Caesar
- Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders
- Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
- Charles Sherover, Heidegger, Kant and Time
- William C. Speidel, Sons of the Profits
- J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy
- Sang Ye, China Candid
- Fareed Zakaria, Age of Revolutions
Fiction
- L. Santiago Calero, A Hell Uncertain
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights and Other Stories
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
- Daniel Kehlmann, The Director
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
- Peter Matthiessen, Killing Mister Watson
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
- Juan Villoro, The Guilty