Books
Below are some books that I think are worth reading, in no particular order. The ones which have resonated with me have an asterisk. At the risk of diluting the message and lessons of a book, I attempted to group the books into different genres for ease of reference.
On learning how to learn
- *Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- The Little Book of Talent
- Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
- *A Mind for Numbers
- *Ultralearning
- *On Writing Well
- Mastery - Robert Greene
- The Obstacle Is the Way
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
- *Grit
- *Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- *The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
On finding a purpose
- *Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
- *80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
- *How Will You Measure Your Life?
- *Principles: Life and Work
- *The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
- *Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Perspectives on work
- It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
- Rework
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
- Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
- *Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- The Lean Startup
- Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
Memoirs and biographies
- *Educated
- *The Glass Castle
- *Open - Andre Agassi
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- *Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
- *Man’s Search for Meaning
- Steve Jobs
- A Man for All Markets
- Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Anything You Want
- *When Breath Becomes Air
- What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Finance
- *Big Debt Crises
- The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
- *The Intelligent Investor
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- *Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- One Up On Wall Street
- Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors
- The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market
- Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side
Mindset
- Sophie’s World
- *Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Never Split the Difference
- 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head
- The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- *The Psychology of Human Misjudgement
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Activate Your Brain: How Understanding Your Brain Can Improve Your Work - and Your Life
- The Compound Effect
- The Greatest Salesman in the World
- The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
Technical stuff
- *An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow
- *Deep Learning with Python
- Think Python
Stoicism
- Letters from a Stoic
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
- *On the Shortness of Life