Occasionally I am asked if I have a complete list of books I think are worth reading. I don't, but here is a fairly complete catalog of the physical books I own (and a few papers I printed out). I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this is intended to be a digital version of that. I have only read about half of the books on this list.
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli
- The Tao of Charlie Munger, David Clark
- Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
- Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects, Peter Zumthor
- Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel
- The Use of Knowledge in Society, F. A. Hayek
- Gentle Architecture, Malcolm Wells
- Measure What Matters, John Doerr
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, Hamilton Helmer
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
- Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, J.E. Gordon
- The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord
- The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
- The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
- Death's End, Cixin Liu
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto
- Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now, John Doerr
- Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Michael Shellenberger
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965 - 2000, Lee Kuan Yew
- Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott
- The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, Saifedean Ammous
- The Built, the Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable: In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning, Robert Harbison
- What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
- The Lustron Home: The History of a Postwar Prefabricated Housing Experiment, Thomas T. Fetters
- High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People, Elad Gil
- Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Ray Dalio
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Michael E. Porter
- Complexity : The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop
- The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke
- The Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
- The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, David J. Chalmers
- The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
- The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
- Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman
- Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, Carlo Rovelli
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Infinite Machine, Camila Russo
- High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove
- Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, R. Buckminster Fuller
- Pattern Thinking, R. Buckminster Fuller
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, R. Buckminster Fuller
- Remote: Office Not Required, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore
- Confessions of an Advertising Man, David Ogilvy
- 1984, George Orwell
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Man and His Symbols, Carl G. Jung
- Mind: A Brief Introduction, John R. Searle
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Typhoon, Joseph Conrad
- The Books of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss
- Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Mortality, and the Future of Humanity, Sam Harris
- The Way of Zen, Alan Watts
- Realms of the Human Unconscious, Stanislav Grof
- Beyond Habitat, Moshe Safdie
- Radical Candor, Kim Scott
- The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities, Joseph Rykwert
- New Directions in American Architecture, Robert. A M. Stern
- Blitzscaling, Reid Hoffman
- Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game, Paul Midler
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Have recommendations? Drop me a note.