Favorite Books
In no particular order:
– The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
– High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove
– The Score Takes Care Of Itself, Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
– The Everything Store, Brad Stone
– Certain to Win, Chet Richards
– The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
– The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson
– The Firm, the Market, and the Law, R. H. Coase
– The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Thomas Sowell
– Poor Charlie’s Almanac, Charles T. Munger
– Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter
– Why Information Grows, César Hidalgo
– The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
– Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham
– Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson
– Positioning: the Battle for your Mind, Al Ries
– Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
– How Will You Measure Your Life, Clayton M. Christensen
– Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
– The Unwritten Laws of Engineering, W.J. King
– The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
– Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor E. Frankl
– The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs
– In the Company of Giants, Rama Dev Jager
– The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
– Diffusion of Innovations, Everett Rogers
– Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richards Heuer
– Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, Carlota Perez
– Shackleton’s Way, Margot Morrell
– Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Erza Vogel
– Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: a Story of Economic Discovery, David Warsh
– From Third World to First, Lee Kuan Yew
– How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Invention, Creation, and Discovery, Kevin Ashton
– Exit, Voice and Loyalty, Albert Hirschman
– The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
– The True Believer, Eric Hoffer
– How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber
– The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
– The Lessons of History, Will Durant
– The Wizard of Menlo Park, Randall Stross
– The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
– Moltke on the Art of War, Helmuth Von Moltke
– Titan: the Life of John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow
– Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field, Nancy Forbes
– Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull
– Seeing Like a State, James Scott
– Managerial Dilemmas, Gary Miller
– Order Without Design, Alain Bertaud
– Only the Paranoid Survive, Andrew Grove
– The Secret of our Success, Joseph Henrich
– Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
– The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod
– Political Order and Political Decay, Francis Fukuyama
– Sam Walton: Made in America, Sam Walton