Bookshelf

This is a selection of the books I’ve read that I’d wholeheartedly recommend to anyone.

Building Companies

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
• 7 Powers: The Foundation of Business Strategy

Working With People

• High Output Management
• Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Managing Money

• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
• Big Debt Crises
• The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
• The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America

Understanding Ourselves

• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
• The Gene: An Intimate History

Understanding the World

• The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• The WEIRDest People in the World

Science Fiction

• Hyperion
• The Three-Body Problem
• A Fire Upon The Deep
• Lord of Light
• The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Cryptonomicon

Fiction

• Midnight’s Children
• Kafka on the Shore
• Trainspotting
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Metamorphosis and Other Stories
• American Gods
• The Vegetarian
• The God of Small Things