A list of books I’ve enjoyed reading…

(last updated 2022)

• The Great Mental Models

• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

• The Dawn of Everything

• Vaporized

• Nonviolent Communication

• Shackleton’s Way

• The Lazarus Heist

• A Brief History of Vice

• 48 Laws of Power

• Snow Crash

• Order Without Design

• The Fourth Turning

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

• The Sovereign Individual

• The Black Swan

• The Untethered Soul

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• The Deficit Myth

• Stranger in a Strange Land
  Wake Up

• Society Of The Spectacle

• Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

• Duchamp: A Biography

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

• The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

• Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art 

• Silence: The Power of Quite in a World Full of Noise

• Reality Transurfing 1: The Space of Variations

• Play Bigger: How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets

• The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

• Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

• Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts

• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 

• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

• A Little History of Economics

• A Little History of the World

• A Little History of Religion

• A Little History of Literature

• A Little History of Science

• The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream

• Seven Days in the Art World

• 33 Artists in 3 Acts

• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• The Conquest of Happiness

• Stillness is the Key 

• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

• The War of Art

• The Art of War

• The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

• Be Here Now

• The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

• So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

• The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

• From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

• The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking: Skillful Thought for Successful Living

• A First Look at Communication Theory 

• Custodians of Conscience

• Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

• Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace

• Postproduction

• On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

• Meditations

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

• 1984

• Lord of the Flies

• The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself

• Designing with Pixar: 45 Activities to Create Your Own Characters, Worlds, and Stories

• The City Reader

• The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

• Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics And The Public Interest 

• The Secret Lives of Color

• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

• Who

• How Will You Measure Your Life?

• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business

• The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

• Jeppesen: Guided Flight Discovery: Private Pilot Maneuvers

• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

• Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship 

• The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia

• Duchamp

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

• Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

• Beautiful Evidence

• Choke

• Leonardo de Vinci

• The Andy Warhol Diaries

• The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

• The Picture of Dorian Gray 

• Furies: War in Europe, 1450–1700

• Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet

• The Medium is the Message

• Being Digital

• Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers

• The Stranger

• Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

• Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games

• The Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling

• The Art of Fixing Things, Principles of Machines, and How to Repair Them

• Shantaram

• The Mountain Shadow

• The Communist Manifesto

• Kafka on the Shore 

• Smart Mobs

• Chicken and Charcoal

• The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places

• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

• A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past

• Interaction of Color

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

• How to Be an Artist 

• The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships