Books

Books I recommend. These books shape my world view.

Zero to One – Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick
The Innovator's Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen
Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey A. Moore
Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It – Scott Kupor
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber – Mike Isaac
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley – Jimmy Soni
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance – Angela Duckworth
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein
Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Obstacle Is the Way – Ryan Holiday
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In – Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
Elon Musk – Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX – Eric Berger
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon – Brad Stone
Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos – Jeff Bezos, edited by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader – Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success – Ken Segall
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire – James Wallace and Jim Erickson
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft – Paul Allen
The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley – Leslie Berlin
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company – Michael S. Malone
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World – Randall E. Stross
In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World – Rama Dev Jager and Rafael Ortiz
Instant: The Story of Polaroid – Christopher Bonanos
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's – Ray Kroc with Robert Anderson
Against the Odds: An Autobiography – James Dyson
Estee: A Success Story – Estée Lauder
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony – Akio Morita with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable – Tim S. Grover with Shari Lesser Wenk
Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness – Tim S. Grover with Shari Lesser Wenk
Driven from Within – Michael Jordan with Mark Vancil
Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet – Jesse Itzler
The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness: Being Very Good Is No Good, You Have to Be Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Good – Kevin Roberts
The Unpublished David Ogilvy – David Ogilvy
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Alexander the Great – Philip Freeman
Julius Caesar – Philip Freeman
Napoleon: A Life – Andrew Roberts
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
Isaac Newton – James Gleick
Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
Putin: His Life and Times – Philip Short
Swimming Across: A Memoir – Andrew S. Grove
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events – John D. Rockefeller Sr.
The Triumph of the American Imagination – Neal Gabler
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre – Keith Johnstone