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Active Books

  • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg

Up Next

  • The Human Element by Loran Nordgren
  • Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  • Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life by Saleem H. Ali
  • How to Measure Anything by Douglas W. Hubbard
  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
  • A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
  • Emergence: The connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  • Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson

Books To Read List

  • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
  • Being Mortal
  • But What If We're Wrong?
  • The First 20 Hours
  • Future Ethics
  • The Hunt for Vulcan
  • Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
  • The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
  • The Organized Mind
  • Overcomplicated
  • Political Saavy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts
  • Range: Why generalists triumph in a specialized world
  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
  • The Road To Character
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Tools and Weapons
  • A Whole New Mind

Suggested Books

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Finished Books

2024

  • The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr (Issue with retrieving highlights, will update once that is resolved)

2023

2022

2021

2020

  • Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 👍
  • The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus 👍
  • The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert 👍
  • White Fragility by Robin Diangelo 👍 ⭐
  • Why Are We Yelling by Buster Benson 👍
  • 26 Marathons by Meb Keflezighi and Scott Douglas 👍
  • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps 👍 ⭐
  • Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear 👍 ⭐

2019

  • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 👍
  • Rebel Talent by Francesca Gino

2018

  • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson 👍 ⭐
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz 👍
  • Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
  • Data-ism by Steve Lohr
  • 4:09:43: Boston 2013 Through the Eyes of the Runners by Hal Higdon :thumbsup: :star:
  • Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers

2017

  • The Leap: The Science Of Trust And Why It Matters by Ulrich Boser 👍
  • Cumulus by Eliot Peper
  • The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 👍
  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
  • 4:09:43: Boston 2013 Through the Eyes of the Runners by Hal Higdon :thumbsup: :star:
  • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez 👍

2016

  • Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
  • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco 👍 ⭐
  • Nudge by Richard H Thaler
  • Ghost In The Wires by Kevin Mitnick
  • Venture Deals by Brad Feld, Jason Medelson
  • My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Pre-2015

  • Startup Growth Engines by Sean Ellis, Morgan Brown 👍
  • Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football by John U. Bacon 👍
  • The Martian by Andy Weir 👍
  • Automate This by Christopher Steiner
  • Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace 👍 ⭐
  • Making It Right by Rian Van Der Merwe
  • The Amazon Way by John Rossman
  • Do Cool Sh*t by Miki Agrawal
  • On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
  • How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Sounders FC: Authentic Masterpiece by Mike Gastineau 👍
  • Hooked by Nir Eyal 👍
  • Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton 👍 ⭐
  • Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
  • The Signal And The Noise by Nate Silver 👍
  • Three and Out by John U. Bacon 👍
  • Startup Life by Brad Feld, Amy Batchelor 👍 ⭐
  • The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
  • The Beckham Experiment by Grant Wahl 👍
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell 👍
  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 👍
  • REWORK by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson 👍
  • The Art Of The Start by Guy Kawasaki
  • The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 👍 ⭐
  • Ideas And Opinions by Albert Einstein
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking
  • The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
  • The Return Of The King by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Fellowship Of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Crossing The Chasm by Geoffery A. Moore
  • Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
  • Gump & Co. by Winston Groom
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Creighton
  • A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving 👍 ⭐

👍 - Recommended Books
⭐ - All-time favorite Books

Top 5

  1. Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
  2. White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
  3. Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  4. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  5. Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson