What I read.
Reading is a form of thinking. Few books, many times — beats many books, once. Marked, annotated, reopened.
Current shelf — not complete, not final.
Building & strategy
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Charlie Munger
Mental models as a tool. The only book on investing that is really about thinking.
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Product obsession as discipline. Where taste becomes strategy.
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High Output Management
Andrew Grove
The operational bible. What does not live in a meeting structure does not live.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
About what nobody writes about.
Persuasion & game theory
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Influence
Robert Cialdini
Required reading. If you don’t know how you are being influenced, you are being influenced.
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
Deciding under uncertainty without lying to yourself.
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The Strategy of Conflict
Thomas Schelling
Game theory as practice, not academia.
Philosophy & mind
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hardness toward oneself, without bitterness.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Stoicism before all the imitations.
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Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Whoever learns to read letters learns to write them.
Health & longevity
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Outlive
Peter Attia
The basics. On hand quarterly.
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Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Sleep as a KPI, with evidence.
One rule.
A book I wouldn’t read twice, I shouldn’t read once. Time is finite, more so than money.