My top 3 recent reads: - Range - Titan - Zone to Win
Recently discovered that John Muir was a grade A badass! Many books he wrote and others wrote about him, but this one was a short & really engaging collection of some of his best stories.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life How Innovation Works The Decadent Society Talent
thinking in bets by annie duke and stillness is the key by ryan holiday.
Incredible and spooky https://www.amazon.com/When-We-Cease-Understand-World/dp/1681375664/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=32a4463d-9ad8-4f79-aa01-a3886d9cd554
The Mom Test, by Rob Fitzpatrick — best book on the brutal questions you have to ask and test to find product-market-fit!
I recently read Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke and got the following from it: 1. separation b/w decisions & outcomes 2. have "future reconnaissance missions" via a future outcome pre-mortem doc 3. using probabilities in normal conversation to reinforce thinking-in-bets behavior
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Would really love a "Farcaster filter" for my Goodreads experience.
There is a lot of non-fiction here but very little fiction. I have loved R3aper by Eliot Peper, Upgrade by Blake Crouch, and Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch - Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
The Machiavellians (a @pmarca rec) Neuromancer (even better on reread) Chekhov’s short stories
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone farcaster://casts/0x...a8b86b9683
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (best novel about the creative/building process I've ever read) - Lincoln Highway (halfway through right now but loving it)
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Not new, but currently obsessed with Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm. Talks about the double edged sword of gaining freedom as an individual. And why, unintuitively, some people don’t want freedom as much as they say.
A few recent faves Fiction: - Upgrade, Blake Crouch - Daemon, Daniel Suarez - Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel Non-Fiction: - The Verge, Patrick Wyman - The Machiavellian’s, James Burnam - The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Heinrich
Idk about best but I’m finishing up the 4 agreements. Reestablishing my reading habit. I started reading it when I was codependent.
“Connect” - the Stanford MBA Touchy-Feely course for the rest of us. Complete manual to deepening relationships. https://amzn.to/3dEHWeB
Fiction: - Memoirs of Hadrian Non-fiction: - Debt: the First 5,000 Years - On Thinking For Oneself
Diary of a Very Bad Year, probably the best books about financial markets that ive ever read