(read) Means I’ve read it. Most of these I have not. I aim to collect recommendations, not show how impressively widely read I am. last updated Jun 25
Ideas
- The Tipping Point(recommendation)
- Envisioning Information(recommendation)
- Graphic/Information design
- (read) The Black Swan (summary)
- (read) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (summary)
Business – Public Speaking
- Speak Like a CEO
Business – Entrepreneurship
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing(recommendation)
- Must-read before selling for startups
- Getting Real(recommendation)
- Howto: Creating a lean tech startup
Life – Philosophy
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel(recommendation)
- practical manual of life philosophy
- Seneca: Letters from a Stoic(recommendation)
- Seneca was a greek Stoic – book is abt “how I handled situations”
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World(recommendation)
- the story of Room To Read & Philanthropy
Life – Interpersonal Relationships
- (read) 92 tricks to talk to anyone
- Simple tips to supplement interaction
- (read) How to Win Friends and Influence People (summary)
Life – Wholistic Health
- 8 Weeks to Optimum Health(recommendation)
- East and West medicine – detox, destress, etc.
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind(recommendation)
Finance – Investing
- The Intelligent Investor(recommendation)
- (read) Inside the House of Money – interviews across the field of hedge funds
- (read) Way of the Turtle (summary) – account of the famous Turtle experiment in momentum trading
- Misbehavior of the Markets
- Chaos: Making a New Science
- Recommendations from Aleph:
- The Intelligent Investor
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- The Alchemy of Finance
- It Was A Very Good Year
- The Aggressive Conservative Investor
- Value Investing
- Co-opetition
Finance – History
- A Free Nation Deep in Debt
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
- The Rise of Financial Capitalism
- The Ascent of Money
- http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/27/the_top_ten_books_to_read_about_international_economic_history
- A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (Paperback)
Biographies
- (reading) Travels by Michael Chrichton – Stories from his life as a doctor and traveller
- (reading) Quantum by Manjit Kumar – The story of quantum and 20th C science
Fiction
- (read) All the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett
- (reading) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- Motherless Brooklyn(recommendation)
- detective with tourette’s
