Reading List

"As long as I have a book in my hand, I don't feel like I'm wasting time."

Here are a list of books, articles, and podcasts I enjoyed and highly recommend. I am always looking for new ones, send me a recommendation!

All-Time

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine
• The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
• Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland
• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III by Robert Caro
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
• When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamín Labatut
• The Iliad by Homer (Fitzgerald Translation)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
• Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

Recent

• Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong
• Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik
• Into The Amazon by Larry Rohter
• The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
• The Predator's Ball by Connie Bruck
• The Chile Project by Sebastián Edwards
• Impro by Keith Johnstone
• Muji Is by Muji Archive
• The Republic by Plato
• The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
• Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
• Singapore, Singapura by Nicholas Walton
• Brazil: A Biography by Lilia Schwarcz and Heloisa Starling
• Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
• Never Rest on Your Ores by Norman Keevil
• Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
• Brazil on the Rise by Larry Rohter
• Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
• Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman
• The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
• When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamín Labatut
• The Odyssey by Homer (Fagles Translation)
• The Iliad by Homer (Lomardo Translation)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
• Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte

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All-Time Links

• What I Wish Someone Had Told Me by Sam Altman
• lifehacks by Alexey Guzey
• A Big Little Idea Called Legibility by Venkatesh Rao
• Market Research, Wireframing, and Design by Balaji S. Srinivasan
• On the referendum #33: High performance government, 'cognitive technologies', Michael Nielsen, Bret Victor, & 'Seeing Rooms' by Dominic Cummings
• Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror by Dan Wang
• Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole by Kevin Simler
• Meditations On Moloch by Scott Alexander
• Friction by Ben Thompson
• The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup by David Sacks
• 17776 (What Football Will Look Like in the Future) by Jon Bois
• Thoughts on Meaning and Writing by Matt Lakeman
• Amp It Up! by Frank Slootman
• The Purpose of Technology is Human Flourishing by Anton Troynikov
• Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny by Tad Friend
• Some things I believe by Nat Friedman
• Principles by Nabeel Qureshi
• Nobody Cares by Florent Crivello
• I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup by Scott Alexander
• How To Be Successful by Sam Altman
• Blackstone's Byron Wien Discusses Lessons Learned in His First 80 Years by Byron Wien
• What Happened to the Future by Founders Fund
• IT'S TIME TO BUILD by Marc Andreessen
• The Risk Not Taken by Andy Dunn
• Status as a Service (StaaS) by Eugene Wei
• It Is Your Responsibility to Follow Up by Alexey Guzey
• Play to Win: Meta-Skills in High Stakes Poker by Chris Sparks
• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems by James Somers
• No One is Even Trying by Applied Divinity Studies
• Life After Lifestyle by Toby Shorin
• how I think when I think about programming by Alice Maz
• Understanding Jane Street by Byrne Hobart
• How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly by dnbt777
• Typography in ten minutes by Matthew Butterick

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Podcasts

• Conversations with Tyler
• Founders
• Acquired
• Cortex
• How I Write
• Hermitix
• Order Without Design
• EconTalk
• Exponent
• Other Life
• How to Take Over the World
• Dwarkesh Podcast
• The Frontier
• The Network Age
• Narratives
• Audience of One

Episodes

• Serverless at Stedi with Zack Kanter
• Lessons from War, Tribal Societies, and a Non-Fiction Life (Sebastian Junger)
• Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
• Gabriel Leydon – Designing Digital Economies
• Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose
• Ryan Holiday – Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes
• Samo Burja on Rising Elites
• Riva Tez on Epistemological Freedom: Feyerabend, Science Funding, and How to Do Whatever You Want
• Edward O. Thorp, A Man For All Markets — Beating Blackjack and Roulette, Beating the Stock Market, Spotting Bernie Madoff Early, and Knowing When Enough is Enough
• Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot
• Lance Armstrong: The rise, fall, and growth of a cycling legend
• The Art of the Untold Story