Books I like

A non-exhaustive list of 125 titles, focused on technology, AI, finance, politics, and novels. Alphabetized by title. Inclusion does not mean I have finished or endorse every book.

• 1984 — Orwell, George
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari
• A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
• A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy — Joel Mokyr
• A Game of Thrones — George R. R. Martin
• All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel — Anthony Doerr
• Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000 — Jason Calacanis
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder — Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
• Apple in China — Patrick McGee
• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader — Brent Schlender
• Blockchain Revolution — Tapscott, Don
• Bosnian Chronicle — Ivo Andric
• Brave New World — Aldous Leonard Huxley
• Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future — Dan Wang
• Build — Tony Fadell
• Change by Design — Brown, Tim
• Chokepoints — Edward Fishman
• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI — Ethan Mollick
• Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
• Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler
• Debt — David Graeber
• Deep Simplicity — John Gribbin
• Demian — Hermann Hesse
• Der Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
• Design Engineering Handbook — Natalya Shelburne, Adekunle Oduye, Kim Williams, Eddie Lou
• Die dunkle Seite des Mondes — Suter, Martin
• Digital Gold — Nathaniel Popper
• Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance
• Empire of AI — Karen Hao
• Engines That Move Markets (2nd Ed) — Alasdair Nairn
• Essays — George Orwell
• Ethereum Frontier Guide — Ethereum
• Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) — Salim Ismail
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• For a New Liberty — Murray N. Rothbard
• From Third World to First The Singapore Story: 1965–2000 — Lee Kuan Yew
• Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• High Output Management — Andrew S. Grove
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — Yuval Noah Harari
• Hooked — Nir Eyal
• How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives — Peter H. Diamandis
• Identity — Francis Fukuyama
• Inferno — Max Hastings
• Island — Huxley, Aldous
• Limits to Growth — Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows
• Man and Machine in Industry 4.0 — The Boston Consulting Group
• Mastering Bitcoin — Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Mastering Ethereum — Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Mastering the Lightning Network — Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms — David S. Evans
• Midnight in Chernobyl — Adam Higginbotham
• Mobile Strategy — Mark Wächter
• Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything — Michaels, F.S.
• Narrative Economics — Robert J. Shiller
• Narziss und Goldmund — Hesse, Hermann
• Nexus — Harari,Yuval Noah
• One-Dimensional Man — Herbert Marcuse
• Platform Revolution — Sangeet Paul Choudary
• Poor Charlie's Almanack - The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger — Charles T. Munger
• Principles — Dalio, Ray
• Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order : Why Nations Succeed and Fail (9781982164799) — Dalio, Ray
• Proof of Stake — Vitalik Buterin
• Read Write Own — Chris Dixon
• Rework — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future — Martin Ford
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
• Seeking Wisdom — Peter Bevelin
• Serious Cryptography — Jean-Philippe Aumasson
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics — Carlo Rovelli
• Siddharta — Hermann Hesse
• Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days — Jake Knapp
• Stories — Ted Chiang
• Technology and the Global Struggle for Power — Jacob Helberg
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff
• The Ancient City — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
• The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
• The Bridge on the Drina — Ivo Andrić
• The Case for Space — Robert Zubrin
• The Crowd — Gustave le Bon
• The Cryptopians — Laura Shin
• The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking — Saifedean Ammous
• The Drunkard's Walk — Leonard Mlodinow
• The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition — Cunningham, Lawrence A.
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — Stone, Brad
• The Giver — Lois Lowry
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• The Infinite Machine — Camila Russo
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) — Clayton M. Christensen
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses — Eric Ries
• The Lessons of History — Will Durant
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More — Chris Anderson
• The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom — James Burnham
• The Metaverse — Matthew Ball
• The Most Important Thing Illuminated — Howard Marks
• The Power Law — Sebastian Mallaby
• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future — Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness — Morgan Housel
• The Rational Optimist — Ridley, Matt
• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium — Martin Gurri
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) — Gordon, Robert J.
• The Road to Serfdom — F. A. Hayek
• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies — Brynjolfsson, Erik
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — Klein, Naomi
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology — Ray Kurzweil
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age — James Dale Davidson
• The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision — Fritjof Capra
• The Thinking Machine — Stephen Witt
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) — Hoffer, Eric
• The Value of Everything — Mariana Mazzucato
• The World for Sale — Farchy, Jack
• Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer — Donella H. Meadows
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Kahneman, Daniel
• To Kill A Mockingbird — Harper Lee
• Totgedacht: Warum Intellektuelle unsere Welt zerstören — Roland Baader
• Venture Capital and How to Get It — Scott Kupor
• Venture Deals — Brad Feld
• We — Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Web3 — Alex Tapscott
• When Money Dies — Adam Fergusson
• When More Is Not Better — Roger L. Martin
• Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoglu
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel