Bookshelf
Books I've read and my thoughts on them since 2024. Tracked via Hardcover API.
Read(33)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rob Fitzpatrick
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Gabriel Weinberg
The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
Michael Shaara
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Art of War
Sun Tzu
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
April 1865
Jay Winik
Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates
The Martian
Andy Weir
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
L'Etranger (Collection Folio, 2) (French Edition) Publisher: Gallimard
Albert Camus
Fidel Castro My Life by Castro Fidel & Ignacio Ramonet
Fidel Castro
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Greg McKeown
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less
Greg McKeown
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian
The Least of Us
Sam Quinones
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson
How to Think Like Socrates
Donald J. Robertson
Atomic habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
Did Not Finish(1)
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Want to Read(27)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Atomic Design
Brad Frost
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight
Crimea
Orlando Figes
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
Andrew Hunt
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
Andrew D. Huberman
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Niall Ferguson
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783 - 1846
Boyd Hilton
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
William Pitt the Younger
William Hague
Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman
Revolutionary Spring
Christopher Clark
The Last King of America
Andrew Roberts
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Stephen R. Platt
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Nick Lloyd
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Adam Tooze
The Third Reich at war
Richard J. Evans
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Peter Heather
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
Reviews
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Really an incredible book and something all entrepreneurs need to read. Incredibly enjoyable and had so many actionable insights.
The Design of Everyday Things
Such an incredible book. It really made me think about why design matters and the impact bad and good design can have on lives, and the lessons and thoughts it left me were very profound and incredibly relevant considering the age of the book. Highly recommend for anyone interested in design or just building anything others will use.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
This was a really good book and taught me a lot about Ben Franklin's life! Only giving 4 stars because it wasn't as interesting nearing the end. Otherwise solid biography!
April 1865
I thought this book was interesting and it convinced me of it's claim that April 1865 was a pivotal month for the United States, but I personally wasn't a fan of it's pseudo-historical narrative with fictional dialogue interwoven with facts that didn't have sources or citations. It made me not know what was the authors inserted dialogue, and what was historical fact, which threw me off personally.
Source Code: My Beginnings
As a Computer Science student in Seattle this has got me going 🔥
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
I thought this book was really good, though some of the practical advice wasn't that useful for me. The focus on outsourcing your job to India and getting random people to write reports or do menial tasks for you didn't seem that applicable.
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Really great book, written in a really engaging manner. A lot of the “lessons” really stocked well with me due to how they were introduced and formatted.
The Least of Us
This book was great, provided a lot of valuable insight into the opioid crisis and really highlighted the human aspect of it.