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Favorite Books

My favorite favorites are marked with a ⭐️ below:

Science

• ⭐️ The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Deutsch)
• ⭐️ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari)
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Rosling)
• Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old (Steele)
• The Body: A Guide For Occupants (Bryson)
• Deep (Nestor)
• Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Harari)

Politics & Culture

• ⭐️ What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies (Urban)
• ⭐️ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (Saad)
• The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution (Lukianoff)
• Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up (Shrier)

Philosophy

• ⭐️ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Jorgenson)
• ⭐️ Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Taleb)
• The Black Swan (Taleb)
• The Obstacle Is The Way (Holiday)
• Ego Is The Enemy (Holiday)
• Why Buddhism Is True (Wright)

Health

• ⭐️ Atomic Habits (Clear)
• ⭐️ The Paleo Solution (Wolfe)
• The Power Of Habit (Duhigg)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
• Breath (Nestor)
• The Mind-Gut Connection (Mayer)
• Born To Run (McDougall)

Biographies

• ⭐️ Elon Musk (Isaacson)
• ⭐️ Steve Jobs (Isaacson)
• Bill Walsh: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership (Walsh)
• Elon Musk (Vance)
• The Innovators (Isaacson)
• Half the Sky (Kristof, WuDunn)
• Between The World And Me (Coates)
• Dreams from My Father (Obama)
• Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela)
• Across That Bridge (Lewis)
• Einstein (Isaacson)

Business

• ⭐️ Principles: Life and Work (Dalio)
• ⭐️ The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Dalio)
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Kaufman)
• What You Do Is Who You Are (Horowitz)
• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations (Forsgren)
• Measure What Matters (Doer)
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz)
• Sprint (Knapp)
• The Lean Startup (Ries)

Software Engineering

• ⭐️ Software Engineering At Google (Winters)
• ⭐️ The Phoenix Project (Kim)
• A Philosophy Of Software Design (Ousterhout)
• Clean Architecture (Fowler)
• The Kubernetes Book (Poulton)
• The Art Of PostgreSQL (Fontaine)
• Data Warehouse Toolkit (Kimball)
• Metaprogramming Ruby (Perrotta)
• The Go Programming Language (Donovan)

Product

• ⭐️ Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (Bush)
• ⭐️ The Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen)
• Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress (Moesta)
• Competing Against Luck (Christensen)

Nature

• ⭐️ Yosemite (Muir)
• The Overstory (Powers)
• The Uninhabitable Earth (Wallace-Wells)
• The Sixth Extinction (Kolbert)
• The Invention Of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Wulf)

Family

• ⭐️ Cribsheet (Oster)
• The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being (Davies)
• The Happiest Baby On The Block (Karp)
• Hold Me Tight (Johnson)

Fiction

• ⭐️ The Three Body Problem Trilogy (Cixin)
• Hail Mary (Weir)
• Seveneves (Stephenson)
• Snow Crash (Stephenson)

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