Reading

Below, in no particular order, are the books that have most shaped how I think. Running list, not complete.

• From Third World to First, Lee Kuan Yew
• Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse
• Parkinson's Law, C. Northcote Parkinson
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, John Coates
• The Brothers, Stephen Kinzer
• Pieces of the Action, Vannevar Bush
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
• Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The World for Sale, Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
• Setting the Table, Danny Meyer
• The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• River Town, Peter Hessler
• The Revolt of the Public, Martin Gurri
• Play Nice but Win, Michael Dell
• The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
• Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• The Moral Animal, Robert Wright
• A Man for All Markets, Edward O. Thorp
• Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
• Billion Dollar Whale, Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• Alibaba, Duncan Clark
• Negotiating the Impossible, Deepak Malhotra
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
• Fortune's Formula, William Poundstone
• Battle for the Big Top, Les Standiford
• Bubble in the Sun, Christopher Knowlton
• Open, Andre Agassi
• How Big Things Get Done, Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
• Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer
• Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Loonshots, Safi Bahcall
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
• Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charles T. Munger
• Why Most Things Fail, Paul Ormerod
• Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull
• Shoe Dog, Phil Knight