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Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
How To Think Like A Roman Emperor
Donald J. Robertson
Letters From a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
William Braxton Irvine
A Mind for Numbers
Barbara Oakley
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Born to Run
Christopher McDougall
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
Influence
Robert Cialdini
Indistractable
Nir Eyal
Lessons in Stoicism
John Sellars
Make It Stick
Peter C. Brown
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Peter Bevelin
Stillness is the Key
Ryan Holiday
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
The Obstacle Is The Way
Ryan Holiday
This Is Water
David Foster-Wallace
Tiny Habits
B.J Fogg
Total Recall
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
$100M Offers
Alex Hormozi
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship
Robert C. Martin
Composing Programs
John DeNero
Courage is Calling
Ryan Holiday
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
Jon Acruff
Grit
Angela Duckworth
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Mastery
Robert Greene
Principles
Ray Dalio
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
Shane Parrish
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger
Will
Will Smith
Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It
Gary Taubes
Range
David Epstein
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
Start With Why
Simon Sinek
Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Ultralearning
Scott Young
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Donald Miller
Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor
Erik Dietrich
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
Lying
Sam Harris
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
Loserthink
Scott Adams
On The Shortness Of Life
Seneca
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Carlo Rovelli
Scrum: A revolutionary approach to building teams, beating deadlines and boosting productivity
Jeff Sutherland
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Nicolas Cole
The Complete Guide to Fasting
Dr. Jason Fung
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
The Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth
James Altucher
The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Shane Parrish
The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
The Little Book That Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
The Third Door
Alex Banayan
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee
As Man Thinketh
James Allen
Ca$hvertising
Drew Whitman
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Invent and Wander
Jeff Bezos
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
George Leonard
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
Tao Te Ching
Lao-Tzu
The 1% Rule
Tommy Baker
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
The Road to Character
David Brooks
The Slight Edge
Jeff Olson
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
The Unicorn Project
Gene Kim
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Work Clean: The Life-changing Power of Mise-en-place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind
Dan Charnas
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
Kevlin Henney
Make Your Bed
William H. Mcraven
Storyworthy
Matthew Dicks
The 10X Rule
Grant Cardone
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Power of Agency
Anthony Rao
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
Seth Godin
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Patrick Bet-David
A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy
Economy of Truth
Vizi Andrei
Just Fucking Ship
Amy Hoy
Living With A SEAL
Jesse Itzler
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
The First 20 Hours
Josh Kaufman
Understanding How We Learn
Yana Weinstein, Megan Sumeracki, Oliver Caviglioli
Gateless
Sebastian Marshall & Kai Zau
You are a Badass
Jen Sincero
Originals
Adam Grant
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy