As of Jan 2023, in addition to the books I read, I will save some of the most interesting, in-depth articles I read as well. If you have any recommendations, please reach out.
2025
- The Nvidia Way - Tae Kim
- Capex & Opex Supercycles Parts 1, 2, 3 - Hemant Mohapatra
- Wind & Truth - Brandon Sanderson
- Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies - Igor Tulchinsky
- Quantitative Trading - Ernest Chan
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
- AI Firm - Dwarkesh Patel
- A History of the Future 2025-2027, 2027-2030, 2030-2040 - L Rudolf L
- AI: Dystopia or Utopia? - Vinod Khosla
- The World After Capital - Albert Wenger
2024
- What Happened to the US Machine Tool Industry? - Brian Potter
- The RAG Revolution: The Future of Computing - Chris Zeoli
- How to land and convert your first defense pilots - Nini Hamrick
- Warfare 2.0: AI for Situational Awareness - Pendulum
- Building in America - Maggie Gray
- The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems - Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
- A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto - Aaron Slodov
- The Practice Of Value Investing - Li Lu
- Valuation Multiples - Michael Mauboussin
- The New Era of Mining - Anna-Sofia Lesiv
- Startup Risk - Kevin Mahaffey
- Mistborn Wax & Wayne Series, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 - Brandon Sanderson
- The Silvers Series Books 1, 2, 3 - Daniel Price
- The Box - Marc Levinson
- 2054 - Elliot Ackerman
- Fourth Wing & Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros
- Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
- The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant
- The Wealth of Shadows - Graham Moore
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- Moscow X - David McCloskey
- How to Build an AI Data Center - Brian Potter
- Reamde - Neal Stephenson
- A Primer on Data Warehouses & Data Lakehouses - Eric Flaningham
- Building the World’s Best Venture Firm - Demren Sinik
- Am I Being Too Subtle? - Sam Zell
- A Technical Guide for Founders & Operators Building Agents - Activant
- How to Hire a CTO - Khosla Ventures
- Advanced Portfolio Management - Giuseppe Paleologo
- The Cradle Series - Will Wight
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Daniel Yergin
- Invisible asymptotes in vertical software - Matt Brown
- Machines of Loving Grace - Dario Amodei
- Defensibility Parts 1, 2 (Stacks), 3 (Power), 4 (Revolutions), 5 (Multi-waves) - Kevin Mahaffey
- Data Centers Part 1, Part 2
- On China - Henry Kissinger
- The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey
- Polostan - Neal Stephenson
- Lee Kuan Yew: Insights on China, The US, and the World - Graham Allison
2023
- Changing Fortunes - Paul Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten
- Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson
- Nuclear energy: past, present, and future - Julia DeWahl
- The Three-Body Problem: Finding the New Stable Points in VC - Frank Rotman
- 2034 - Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis
- Geopolitics are Changing. Venture Capital Must, Too - Hemant Tenaja & Fareed Zakaria
- Inflection Points - Michael Dempsey
- The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
- Startup Decoupling & Reckoning - Elad Gil
- Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics - Eric Schmidt
- The U.S. Is Not Yet Ready for the Era of ‘Great Power’ Conflict - Michael Gordon
- Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption - Atlantic Council
- Space Launch: Are We Heading For Oversupply or a Shortfall? - McKinsey & Company
- The Race to $100B: The Palo Alto Networks Story - Francis & Rak Garg
- Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World’s Most Critical Technology - Chris Miller
- Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle - Marathon Asset Management
- Delta-v - Daniel Suarez
- Breakfast With Pops - Adam Draper
- eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work - Randall Stross
- The Grid (Part I, II, III, IV) - Brian Potter
- Is payments a race to the bottom? - Simon Taylor
- Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown
- The Freight Ecosystem - Eli Dukes
- Can open source be too open? - Philip Clark
- Problems for Adyen and Paypal in the competitive payments landscape - Tech Fund
- Food For Thought: The Potential Ripple Effect of GLP1s - Zach Reitano
- The Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
- Nvidia Envy: understanding the GPU gold rush - John Luttig
- Welding and the Automation Frontier - Brian Potter
- How to Scale Nuclear Power - Ryan McEntush
- Cable Cowboy: John Malone & the rise of the modern cable-TV business - Mark Robichaux
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy - Hamilton Helmer
- White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan - Major General Mick Ryan
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel
- Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in WWII - Arthur Herman
2022
- Mastering the Market Cycle - Howard Marks
- The Power Law: Venture Capital & the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby
- Upgrade - Blake Crouch
- The Bond King - Mary Childs
- How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton Christensen
- Atomic Awakening: New Look at the History & Future of Nuclear Power - James Mahaffey
- The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
- The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
- Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
- The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - Christian Brose
- Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson
2021
- Daemon - Daniel Suarez
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein
- Kings of Crypto - Jeff John Roberts
- The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
- Angel: How to invest in Technology Startups - Jason Calacanis
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
- Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
- Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok & ByteDance - Matthew Brennan
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- Fallen Leaves - Will Durant
- Radical Candor - Kim Scott
- Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase - Duff McDonald
- Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
2020
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
- Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger
- Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
- The Man Who Solved the Market - Gregory Zuckerman
- What it Takes - Stephen Schwarzman
- The Holdout - Graham Moore
- The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
- Polar Vortex - Matt Mather
- Burn In - P. W. Singer
- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
- The Algebra of Happiness - Scott Galloway
- Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt - Steven Johnson
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
- Tape Sucks: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story - Frank Slootman
- The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
2019 (I commuted a lot this year)
- Destined for War - Graham Allison
- The Fixer - Bradley Tusk
- Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson
- Educated - Tara Westover
- The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
- The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin
- Made in America - Sam Walton
- The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin
- Leviathan Wakes (Expanse Book 1) - James Corey
- Caliban’s War (Expanse Book 2) - James Corey
- Abaddon’s Gate (Expanse Book 3) – James Corey
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
- Vicious - V.E. Schwab
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
- Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
- Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
- Shadow and Bone Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
- The Demon Under the Microscope - Thomas Hager
- City of Thieves - David Benioff
- The Last Days of Night - Graham Moore
- The Sherlockian - Graham Moore
- Circe - Madeline Miller
- The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
- The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen
- Red Notice - Bill Browder
- Amazon.com: Get Big Fast - Robert Spector
- A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - Tren Griffin
- Bitcoin Billionaires - Ben Mezrich
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Nemesis Games - James Corey
- The 25th Hour - David Benioff
- Recursion - Blake Crouch
- The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley
- The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
- Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
- We Are Legion - Dennis Taylor
- For We Are Many - Dennis Taylor
- All These Worlds - Dennis Taylor
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman
- Exhalation - Ted Chiang
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor
- Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt
- What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
- That Will Never Work - Marc Randolph
- A Man For All Markets - Edward Thorp
- Team of Teams - Stanley McChrystal
2018
- Subscribed - Tien Tzuo
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- CyberStorm - Matthew Mather
- The Financial Diaries - Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider
- The Spider Network - David Enrich
- All Systems Red - Martha Wells
- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
- The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky
- Powerful - Patty McCord
- Shackleton’s Way - Margot Morrell
- Bad Blood - John Carreyou
- Dollars and Sense - Dan Ariely
- On Grand Strategy - John Lewis Gaddis
- Artemis - Andy Weir
- How the Other Half Banks - Mehrsa Baradaran
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
- Billion Dollar Whale - Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Who is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
- When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
- The House of Morgan - Ron Chernow
- Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
- Walt Disney - Neal Gabler
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
- Executive Orders - Tom Clancy
- Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy
- Ghost Fleet - P.W. Singer & August Cole
- Death’s End - Cixin Liu
- The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
- Station Eleven - Emily St. John
- Bandwidth - Eliot Peper
2017
- Option B - Sheryl Sandberg
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
- Stealing Fire - Steven Kotler
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
- The Mission, the Men, and Me - Pete Blaber
- Grit - Angela Duckworth
- The Great Bridge - David McCullough
- The Power Broker - Robert Caro
- The New Tycoons - Jason Kelly
- Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink
- Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
- The Upstarts - Brad Stone
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- Financially Fearless - Alexa von Tobel
- The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
- The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh
- Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton
- Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance - Louis Gerstner
I didn't track the books I read before 2017. Sorry.
Books to read:
- Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - A.G. Lafley
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts
- The Art of Doing Science & Engineering - Richard Hamming
- Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Michael Webber
- Who Will Care For Us? Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce - Paul Osterman
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
- The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
- Difficult Conversations - Douglas Stone
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- The Money Hackers - Daniel Simon
- Payments Systems in the U.S. - Carol Coye Benson
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- The Mosquito - Timothy Winegard
- The Case for Space - Robert Zubrin
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
- The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
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