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Books worth re-reading

  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, Charles Wheelan
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman
  • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
  • Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari

Key

👏 👏 👏 : Worth a re-read
💭 👍 💭 : Incredibly thought-provoking
👍 : Good read
💤 : Slow/boring at times
👎 : Disliked/Abandoned

2017

  • How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg 👍
  • The Infinite, A.W. Moore 💤
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari 👏 👏 👏
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter 💭 👍 💭
  • Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh 👍
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1), Douglas Adams 👍

2018

  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely 💭 👍 💭
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou 👍
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman 👏 👏 👏
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B. Peterson 💭 👍 💭
  • Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari 👏 👏 👏
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg 💭 👍 💭
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner 👎
  • Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley 💤
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel 💭 👍 💭

2019

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Jonathan Haidt 💭 👍 💭
  • The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston 👍
  • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, Safi Bahcall 👍
  • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Judea Pearl 👍
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, Charles Wheelan 👏 👏 👏
  • High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil 💭 👍 💭
  • Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Ajay Agrawal 💭 👍 💭
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss 💭 👍 💭
  • Small Fry, Lisa Brennan-Jobs 👍
  • Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb 👍
  • How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan 👍
  • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse 👏 👏 👏

Currently Reading

  • Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever, Nick de Semlyen

Up Next

  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
  • The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind, Raghuram G. Rajan
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, Alex Rosenblat
  • The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, Bryan Caplan
  • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas
  • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, James Dale Davidson
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
  • A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Karen Armstrong
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek
  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoğlu
  • The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
  • When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, Jim Holt
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams
  • High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove
  • Measure What Matters, John E. Doerr
  • American Gods (American Gods, #1), Neil Gaiman
  • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves, Dan Ariely
  • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley
  • Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy, Parth Detroja
  • Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, Charles Wheelan
  • All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy, Phil Keith
  • Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James P. Carse
  • Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek
  • Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1), Jim Butcher
  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis
  • Principles, Ray Dalio
  • The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz

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