Just a rolling list of books I’ve read, podcasts I listen to, and other places I learn things. I’ll keep adding as I burn down the large stack of books on my bedside table. Posts with my thoughts on individual books will come as I get around to them.
Psychology:
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Focus by Daniel Goleman
- Collaborative Intelligence by Dawna Markova
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
- Mindset by Carol Dweck
- Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
Philosophy:
- The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Mindfulness:
- Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
Music and Writing:
- This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin
- Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
- The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Business:
- Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian
- Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
- Business Adventures by John Brooks
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Trust Me, I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
- Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley, William Danko
Science and Technology:
- The Master Switch by Tim Wu
- The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
- Energy Myths and Realities by Vaclav Smil
- Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
- Code by Charles Petzold
- How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Product design:
- Hooked by Nir Eyal
- Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Are Your Lights On? by Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
Biography:
- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
- Titan by Ron Chernow
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Non-fiction:
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Fiction:
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
- Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous Author
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Magazines (yep):
Podcasts:
- TED Radio Hour
- Invisibilia
- On Being
- The Ezra Klein Show
- Freakonomics
- 99% Invisible
- Tim Ferriss Show
- Planet Money
Online learning:
- Machine Learning on Coursera by Andrew Ng
- iOS Development (started with iOS 7, but 8 and 9-and soon 10-are out now)
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