Reading list

Here’s a list of books and podcasts that I’ve been reading over the last few years.
Current reading:
Q2-Q3 2020
- Permanent Record – Edward Snowden
- Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems – Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
- The Ride of a Lifetime – Robert Iger (former CEO of Disney) – DONE
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Mason – DONE
- Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
- The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work – Shawn Achor – IN PROGRESS
- Humankind – Rutger Bregman – DONE
- Atomic Habits – James Clear – DONE
- Everybody Lies: what the internet can tell us about who we really are – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz – DONE
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber – Mike Isaac – DONE
- Platform Revolution – Parker, Van Alstyne, Choudary – IN PROGRESS / UNFINISHED
Interesting podcasts
- Sam Harris | The Nature of Human Nature
- Joe Rogan | Mike Tyson
- Joe Rogan | Edward Snowden
- Peter Attia | Matthew Walker, Ph.D.: Sleep and immune function, chronotypes, hygiene tips, and addressing questions about his book
- Andreessen Horowitz | Designing a Culture of Reinvention
Books I’ve read in the past which are good
MANAGEMENT / BUILDING BUSINESSES
- What you do is who you are – Ben Horowitz
- The 5 Dysfunctions of a team (Leadership Fable) – Patrick Lencioni
- The Alliance – Reid Hoffman
- Leading – Alex Ferguson (with Michael Moritz)
- Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman
- What to ask the person in the Mirror – Robert Kaplan
- The Weekly Coaching Conversation – Brian Souza
- Traction: A start-up guide to getting customers – Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
- The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
- The Alliance: Managing talent in the networked age – Reid Hoffman
- High Output Management – Andrew Grove
- Build it: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement – Glenn Elliott, Debra Corey
- Scaling Up: How a few companies make it, and the rest don’t – Verne Harnish
- The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100m – Mark Roberge
- Predictable Revenue – Aaron Ross & Marylou Tyler
- To Sell is Human – Daniel H. Pink
- Principles – Ray Dalio (Part 2 & 3 mandatory, Part 1 optional)
GENERAL BUSINESS / BUSINESS BIOGRAPHY
- What it takes – Stephen Schwarzman (founder of Blackstone)
- Billion Dollar Whale – Tim Wright, Bradley Hope (Story of 1MDB)
- Bad Blood – John Carreyrou (Story of Theranos)
- Creativity Inc – Ed Catmull (Story of Pixar)
- The Airbnb Story – Leigh Gallagher
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight (Story of Nike)
- Jack Ma’s Alibaba – Duncan Clark
- Sam Walton – Made in America – Sam Walton (founder of Walmart)
- How Google Works – Eric Schmidt
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- Hatching Twitter – Nick Bilton
- Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonalds: Ray Croc
- Titan – Ron Chernow (biography of Rockefeller)
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
- Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
- The Everything Store (Amazon) – Brad Stone
- Losing My Virginity – Richard Branson (Story of Virgin)
- Finding my Virginity – Richard Branson (Story of Virgin)
- Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh (founder of Zappos)
ECONOMICS / PHILOSOPHY / POLITICS
- Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Homo Deus – Yuval Harari
- Tribe: On homecoming & Belonging – Sebastian Junger
- The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
- Fooled by Randomness – The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets – Nassim Taleb
HISTORY
- Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations – Ronen Bergman
- Sapiens – Yuval Harari
SCIENCE
- Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
- How Not To Die – Dr. Michael Greger (more of a manual of what to eat within vegan diet)
- Drugs – Without the Hot Air – David Nutt