“As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.”
Charlie Munger
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
Recent
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
Freedom by Sebastian Junger
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
A Philosophy Of Software Design by John Ousterhout
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes
In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
Inferno by Dante (Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)
War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
All-Time Links
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
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
Podcasts
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
Riva Tez on Epistemological Freedom: Feyerabend, Science Funding, and How to Do Whatever You Want
Ian Vanagas 