Updated May 2023
Understanding the human mind
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari 👍🏽👍🏽
- The history of human development is perhaps the greatest path to our self understanding, including the impact and future of technology.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman 👍🏽
- Among this list, the most referenced book by all others.
- The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb 👍🏽
- Similar to Kahneman, an appreciation of questioning the status quo of human expectation and intuition.
- Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goldman 👍🏽
- Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke 👍🏽
- How We Learn – Stanislas Dehaene 👍🏽
- Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari 🤷♀️
- Waking Up – Sam Harris 🤷♀️
- Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
- Drive – Daniel Pink
- Flow – Mihlay Csikszentmihalyi
- Misbehaving – Richard Thaler
- Religion for Atheists – Alain de Bolton
- Social – Matthew D Lieberman
- The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- How Emotions Are Made – Lisa Feldman Barrett 👎🏼
- How will you Measure your Life – Clayton Christensen
- Give and Take – Adam Grant
- What’s Our Problem – Tim Urban
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell 👍🏽
- The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel A van der Kolk
- Lifespan – David A. Sinclair
- Unf–k Your Brain – Faith G Harper
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
Technology & Intelligence
- Wait But Why: Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future – Tim Urban 👍🏽👍🏽
- An incredible summary of the brain and the next frontier of technology
- SuperIntelligence – Nick Bostrom 🤷♀️
- Too dense for all but the most committed in the field of technology and AI
- Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark 🤷♀️
Startups
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz 👍🏽
- Read once you are a CEO that actually has to make hard choices
- Zero To One – Peter Theil 👍🏽
- Read to understand how to hone your startup idea
- Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman 👍🏽
- Read to take your business to unicorn-level
- Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore 👍🏽
- Getting Things Done – David Allen 👍🏽
- What You Do Is Who You Are – Ben Horowitz 👍🏽
- Read as a founder seeking to create the right team culture
- Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh 👍🏽
- Principles – Ray Dalio 👍🏽
- Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg 👍🏽
- Alchemy – Rory Sutherland 👍🏽
- Tribal Leadership – Dave Logan
- High Output Management – Andrew Grove 🤷♀️
- One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com 🤷♀️
- The E Myth Revisited – Michael Gerber 🤷♀️
- Alibaba – Duncan Clark
- Screw Business as Usual – Richard Branson 👎🏼
- Inspired – Marty Cagan
- Good to Great – Jim Collins 👍🏽
- Scaling Up – Verne Harnish
- Playing to Win – Roger L Martin
- An Elegant Puzzle – Systems of Engineering Management
- Work Rules! – Laszlo Bock
- The Cold Start Problem – Andrew Chen
- Nudge – Richard H. Thaler 👍🏽
Biographies
- A Bigger Picture – Malcolm Turnbull
- A Promised Land – Barack Obama
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
- Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
- Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
- The Contrarian – Max Chafkin
Other
- The intelligent Investor – Benjamin Grahan
- The Warren Buffett Way – Robert Hagstrom
- Age of Ambition – Evan Osnos
- Maoism – Julia Lovell
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson 👎🏼
- Back to school to learn science, without the exams