Books

Some of the most important lessons I have learned are from books I have read. The habit of reading books and writing down the key insights have been life-changing. I'm sharing my notes with you, in hopes that you will get as much from them as I have.

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The latest book is The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming.

📕 Click on the book title or image to read my notes. I have included a short summary of my thoughts on each book, yet omitted ratings. I do not believe my 1-10 rating sufficiently communicates the value of a given book.

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  • Discourses and Selected Writings
  • How To Think Like A Roman Emperor
  • Letters From a Stoic
  • Meditations
  • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
  • The Republic
  • Man's Search For Meaning
  • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
  • A Mind for Numbers
  • Antifragile
  • Atomic Habits
  • Born to Run
  • Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Hands-on Machine Learning With Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
  • How to Take Smart Notes
  • Indistractable
  • Influence
  • Lessons in Stoicism
  • Make It Stick
  • Nicomachean Ethics
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack
  • Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
  • Shoe Dog
  • Stillness is the Key
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
  • The Obstacle Is The Way
  • The Psychology of Money
  • This Is Water
  • Tiny Habits
  • Total Recall
  • Same as Ever
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
  • Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
  • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
  • The Prince
  • The Blind Watchmaker
  • $100M Offers
  • 12 Rules for Life
  • The Boron Letters
  • Composing Programs
  • Courage is Calling
  • Elon Musk
  • Extreme Ownership
  • Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
  • Greenlights
  • Grit
  • Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
  • How to Get Rich
  • Longevity...Simplified: Living a Longer, Healthier Life Shouldn’t Be Complicated
  • Mastery
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
  • Principles
  • Show Your Work!
  • Siddhartha
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Everything Store
  • The Go-Giver
  • The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
  • The Lean Startup
  • The Man Who Solved the Market
  • The MANIAC
  • The Phoenix Project
  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
  • Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It
  • Will
  • Let's Go Further!
  • Let's Go!
  • Range
  • Solve for Happy
  • Start With Why
  • Steal Like an Artist
  • The Art of War
  • Ultralearning
  • TypeScript Cookbook
  • A Brief History of Time
  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
  • Anything You Want
  • Building a Second Brain
  • Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor
  • Excellent Advice for Living
  • Factfulness
  • Grokking Algorithms
  • How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
  • Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth
  • Leaders Eat Last
  • Loserthink
  • Lying
  • Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
  • My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
  • Node.js Design Patterns
  • On The Shortness Of Life
  • Reality Is Not What It Seems
  • Run Like a Pro (Even If You're Slow): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level
  • Scrum: A revolutionary approach to building teams, beating deadlines and boosting productivity
  • The Art and Business of Online Writing
  • The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth
  • The Complete Guide to Fasting
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • The E-Myth Revisited
  • The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
  • The Inner Game of Tennis
  • The Little Book That Beats the Market
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
  • The Personal MBA
  • The Third Door
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Tribe of Mentors
  • Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
  • A Philosophy of Software Design
  • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
  • As Man Thinketh
  • Ca$hvertising
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship
  • Eloquent JavaScript
  • Fooled by Randomness
  • How to Become a Straight A-Student
  • Invent and Wander
  • Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You
  • Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
  • Tao Te Ching
  • The 1% Rule
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • The Richest Man in Babylon
  • The Road Less Stupid: Advice From the Chairman of the Board
  • The Road to Character
  • The Score Takes Care of Itself
  • The Slight Edge
  • The Unicorn Project
  • The War of Art
  • Walden
  • Without Their Permission
  • Work Clean: The Life-changing Power of Mise-en-place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind
  • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
  • Keycloak: Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications
  • Make Your Bed
  • Storyworthy
  • The 10X Rule
  • The 12-Week Year
  • The Bed of Procrustes
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
  • The Four Agreements
  • The Power of Agency
  • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
  • Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • A Calendar of Wisdom
  • Be Useful
  • Economy of Truth
  • Just Fucking Ship
  • Living With A SEAL
  • Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
  • The First 20 Hours
  • Understanding How We Learn
  • FastAPI: Modern Python Web Development
  • Gateless
  • You are a Badass
  • Originals
  • The Compound Effect