Books

I've decided to keep track of the books I've been reading. List starting from winter 2017, most recent first.

  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  • Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
  • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
  • The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime by MJ DeMarco
  • Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself by Rich Roll
  • A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
  • Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours by Noah Kagan
  • The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly
  • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
  • EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by Marty Cagan
  • The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups by Gergely Orosz
  • The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
  • The Third Door: The Mindset of Success by Alex Banayan
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
  • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
  • 10 Days to Faster Reading by The Princeton Language Institute, Abby Marks-Beale
  • The Personal MBA 10th Anniversary Edition by Josh Kaufman
  • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks
  • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You by Ali Abdaal
  • $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No by Alex Hormozi
  • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson, John David Mann
  • Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet by Jesse Itzler
  • Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman
  • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel
  • How to Build a Car by Adrian Newey
  • Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level by Matt Fitzgerald, Ben Rosario
  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you by Rob Fitzpatrick
  • Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins
  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton
  • Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven
  • The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll
  • The 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth, and Relationships Forever by Eric Partaker
  • In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  • Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
  • The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
  • Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
  • How To Make The Best Coffee At Home by James Hoffmann
  • The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael Watkins
  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
  • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte
  • Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson
  • The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
  • Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
  • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
  • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
  • “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
  • Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself by Wes Bush
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  • Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
  • Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
  • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
  • The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha
  • The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed by Hasan Kubba, Ash Ali
  • High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
  • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
  • The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
  • Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman
  • The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, and Ways to Correct Them by Emre Soyer, Robin M Hogarth
  • Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
  • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon
  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
  • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
  • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
  • The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
  • The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
  • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
  • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
  • The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt
  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
  • Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
  • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
  • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young
  • Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
  • Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
  • Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
  • Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
  • Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter
  • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
  • The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
  • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
  • The Lessons of History by Will Durant
  • Life on Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything by Victor J. Strecher
  • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
  • Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant
  • How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
  • Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty (The MIT Press) by James H. Austin MD
  • The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon
  • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss
  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  • Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity by Joel Spolsky
  • Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  • Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life by Tasha Eurich
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
  • Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition) (Collins Business Essentials) by Benjamin Graham
  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
  • The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time by Allen Gannett
  • The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: On Robustness and Fragility (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
  • The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
  • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
  • High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
  • The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban
  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
  • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness by Steve Peters
  • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
  • New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Artemis by Andy Weir
  • Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
  • Origin by Dan Brown
  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  • Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor, Saul Singer
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness