I love reading. It’s the cheat code to get hundreds of hours of high-quality research neatly condensed into a package that takes about a week to consume.
Here is what I’ve completed reading lately:
Year | Title | Author | Must Read |
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2024 | Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career | Scott H Young | ⚡️ |
The Meaning of Mariah Carey | Mariah Carey | ||
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers | Andy Greenberg | ||
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage | Alfred Lansing | ⚡️ | |
Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet | Jesse Itzler | ||
The Butterfly Lion | Michael Morpurgo | ||
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market | Edward O. Thorp | ||
Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger | ⚡️ | |
2023 | The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East | Alistair Urquhart | |
Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | ⚡️ | |
The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams | ||
Start at the End | Matt Wallaert | ||
What We Owe the Future | William MacAskill | ||
Electric City | Thomas Hager | ||
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology | Gayle Laakmann McDowell & Jackie Bavaro | ||
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer | Neal Stephenson | ||
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Ron Chernow | ||
Am I Being Too Subtle? | Sam Zell | ||
The Richest Man in Babylon | George S. Clason | ⚡️ | |
Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | ⚡️ | |
Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | ||
The Holy Quran (English Translation) | Abdullah Yusuf Ali | ||
Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
The Mom Test | Rob Fitzpatrick | ⚡️ | |
Building a Second Brain | Tiago Forte | ||
Zero to One | Peter Thiel | ||
2022 | Company of One | Paul Jarvis | |
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup | Rob Walling | ||
Show Your Work! | Austin Kleon | ||
Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding | Rob Walling | ||
12 Rules to Learn to Code | Dr. Angela Yu | ||
Make – Bootstrapper’s Handbook | Pieter Levels | ||
The Productive Muslim | Mohammed Faris | ||
How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan | ||
SCRUM – The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time | Jeff Sutherland | ||
The First 20 Hours | Josh Kaufman | ||
The Four – The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google | Scott Galloway | ||
The Productivity Project | Chris Bailey | ||
The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | ⚡️ | |
Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | ⚡️ | |
Getting Things Done | David Allen | ⚡️ | |
Productivity Ninja | Graham Allcott | ||
The Lazy Project Manager | Peter Taylor | ||
Limitless | Jim Kwik | ||
The Science of Getting Rich | Wallace D. Wattles | ||
The Art of War | Sun Tsu | ⚡️ | |
Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | ⚡️ | |
The Obstacle is the Way | Ryan Holiday | ||
The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | ||
Crushing It! | Gary Vaynerchuk | ||
The Millennial Game Plan | Laura Shin | ||
The 4-Hour Body | Timothy Ferriss | ||
Mindset | Carol Dweck | ⚡️ | |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | ⚡️ | |
The Total Money Makeover | Dave Ramsey | ||
Atomic Habits | James Clear | ||
Peak Performance | Brad Stulberg | ||
The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | ||
Transcend – The New Science of Self-Actualisation | Scott Barry Kaufman | ⚡️ | |
Kettlebell Simple & Sinister | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
Secrets of Divine Love | A. Helwa | ⚡️ | |
Finding Ultra | Rich Roll | ||
Deep Work | Cal Newport | ||
Everything is F*cked | Mark Manson | ||
The Lifestyle Investor | Justin Donald | ||
Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life | Hector Garcia | ||
Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds | David Goggins | ||
2021 | The Talent Code | Daniel Coyle | |
Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu? | Niq Mhlongo | ||
The Holy Quran (Arabic) | |||
2020 | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | |
Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | ||
The Cannabis Grow Bible | Greg Green | ||
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman | Yvon Chouinard | ⚡️ | |
Start With Why | Simon Sinek | ||
The 4-Hour Workweek | Timothy Ferriss | ||
Essentialism | Greg McKeown | ⚡️ | |
Who Moved My Cheese? | Dr. Spencer Johnson | ||
Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | ||
Your Happy Healthy Pet: Cockatiel, 2nd Edition | Julie Rach Mancini | ||
Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
The Mad Scientist | Gaathier Mahed | ||
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | ||
The 5am Club | Robin Sharma | ||
Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
I Will Teach You To Be Rich (2nd Edition) | Ramit Sethi |