A list of what I’ve recently read / may read. Recommendations welcome.
💎 = strong impression
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💎 IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
💎 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
💎 Blood Meridian
💎 Can’t Hurt Me
💎 Catch-22
💎 Death Of A Salesman
💎 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
💎 How Will You Measure Your Life?
💎 Man's Search for Meaning
💎 On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
💎 Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
💎 The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
💎 The Prophet
💎 When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi
💎 The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America
A Confederacy of Dunces
Brave New World
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Hacker Monthly Issue 10 (Regular Issue)
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger
Quo Vadis
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
The Brothers Karamazov
The Fifth Discipline
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury
Why We Sleep Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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! Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
! Hegarty on Creativity: There Are No Rules
! The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups Paperback – May 9, 2017
! The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
! The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Against Democracy
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower: Be a happy nondrinker
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Chronicles of Wasted Time: An Autobiography
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose - Second Edition
Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Death of a Hero
Democracy in America: Abridged Edition
Designing for People
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Don Quixote
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Hacker Monthly Issue 13 (Regular Issue)
Hacking Capitalism
Hellstorm: The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947
High Output Management
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
How Emotions Are Made
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
In the Company of Giants
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain - David Eagleman
Make It Clear:
Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform
Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs In His Own Words
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions
Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
Oliver Twist
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Paradise Lost
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing
Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry
Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
The Alchemist
The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms 3rd Edition
The Ascent of Man
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
The Captive Mind
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
The Half-Made World
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The New Yale Book of Quotations
The Organization Man
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment