Fav books

Sci-fi & fiction

• Three Body Problem

• Recursion

• Ready Player One

• Red Rising

• The Foundation Novels

• The Last Question

• The Martian

• Dark Matter

• Harry Potter

• Da Vinci Code

• Pachinko

• Crazy Rich Asians

Bio & memoirs

• Catch Me If You Can

• The Mastermind

• American Kingpin

• Billion Dollar Whale

• Educated: A Memoir

• Born a Crime

• Can’t Hurt Me

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller

• Bad Blood

• Attention Factory

• Alexander the Great

• Steve Jobs

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

• Elon Musk

• Born of This Land: My Life Story

Biz

• 7 Powers

• Thinking in Systems

• Essentialism

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things

• The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

  • Shorter alternative: A Founder's Guide to Writing Well

  • Even shorter: The Day You Became A Better Writer

• No Rules Rules

• Trillion Dollar Coach

• Build

Psychology, philosophy & personal development

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Designing The Mind

• Clear Thinking

• Metamagical Themas

• Principles

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

• Be Slightly Evil

• The Brain: The Story of You

• The Psychology of Money

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

• How to Get Rich

History & social science

• The Real North Korea

• What’s Our Problem?

• Sapiens

• A Bright Future

• Age of Ambition (New China)

• The Unabomber Manifesto (first section before he loses his mind)

• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Science

• The Journey to Quantum Gravity

• Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained

Spirituality

• Awareness

• The Power of Now

Essays

• Life is Short

• How to be Successful

• Superstar Effect

• Crony Beliefs

• Status as a Service

• The American Press is Destroying Itself