Reading List
A running list of writing I've enjoyed and that continues to influence my thinking.
Startups
- Elad Gil's Blog
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
- High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil
- High Output Management — Andy Grove
- Marc Andreessen's Blog
- Paul Graham's Essays
- Sam Altman's Blog
- Sriram Krishnan's Memos
- The Wright Brothers — David McCullough
Business
- Amazon Shareholder Letters — Jeff Bezos
- Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters — Warren Buffett
- Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
- The New New Thing — Michael Lewis
- The Outsiders — William Thorndike
- The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh
- Setting the Table — Danny Meyer
Crypto
Fiction
- 2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
- The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
- The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
- Exhalation — Ted Chiang
- Hyperion Cantos — Dan Simmons
- I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
- The Long Ships — Frans G. Bengtsson
- The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
- My Struggle — Karl Ove Knausgaard
- The Odyssey — Homer
- The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe
- Roadside Picnic — Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
- Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
- Solaris — Stanisław Lem
- A Song of Ice and Fire — George R.R. Martin
- Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
- Swann's Way — Marcel Proust
- True Grit — Charles Portis
Non-Fiction
- Atomic Habits — James Clear
- The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
- The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
- The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
- How to Decide — Annie Duke
- The Information — James Gleick
- Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
- The Power of Full Engagement — Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
- Range — David Epstein
- The Scout Mindset — Julia Galef
- The Signal and the Noise — Nate Silver
- Stubborn Attachments — Tyler Cowen
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
- The Survival of the Bark Canoe — John McPhee
- The Swerve — Stephen Greenblatt
- The Undoing Project — Michael Lewis
- When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi