Personal favorites
Favorites from the year
My favorites tend to change as I apply frameworks/ideas from books so markings may change

2020:

• Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
• Infomocracy by Malka Older
• Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands by Rory Sutherland
• Unlocking the Customer Value Chain by Thales S. Teixeira
• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer
• Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
• Chaos: Making of a New Science by James Gleick
• Superforecasting by Dan Gardner & Philip Tetlock
• The Innovation Stack by Jim McKelvey
• Propoganda by Edward Bernays
• Creation: Life and How to Make It by Steve Grand
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
• The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• Competition Demystified by Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn
• Viral Loops by Adam L. Penenberg
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Outline by Rachel Cusk
• The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
• 100 Plus by Sonia Arrison
• The 3G Way: Dream, People, Culture by Francisco S. Homem de Mello
• Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights by Graham Allison, Robert Blackwill, and Ali Wyne
• Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy by Jigar Shah
• Exhalation: Stories (Compilation) by Ted Chiang
• Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton and John Huey
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

2019:

• A New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon
• The AIG Story by Maurice R. Greenburg & Lawrence A. Cunningham
• Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
• Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
• The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger
• The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West by Payal Arora
• SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• Empire State of Mind by Zack Greenburg
• Jim Simons: The Man Who Solved the Markets by Gregory Zuckerman
• Trillion Dollar Coach by Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg
• Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension by Samuel Arbesman
• Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo
• The Professor in the Cage by Jonathan Gottschall
• Small Giants by Bo Burlingham
• Finite & Infinite Games by James P. Carse
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
• Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order & chaos by Mitchell Waldrop
• Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Turning the Flywheel by James Collins
• Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
• Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms by David Evans and Richard Schmalensee
• The 100 Year Life by Andrew Scott and Gratton Lynda
• Who Is Michael Ovitz by Michael Ovitz
• By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt Groupe and Changed How Millions Shop by Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank
• Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson
• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

2018:

• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
• Measure What Matters by John Doerr
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
• Dream Big: How the Brazilian Trio behind 3G Capital acquired Anheuser-Busch, Burger King and Heinz by Cristiane Correa
• Living With a SEAL by Jesse Itzler
• World After Capital by Albert Wenger
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
• How to turn down a billion dollars: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
• Technology Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
• King of Capital by John Morris and David Carey
• eBoys: The True Story of the Six Tall Men Who Backed eBay, Webvan, and Other Billion Dollar Start-ups by Randall Stross
• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
• The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar
• How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen
• Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
• Platform Revolution by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Geoffrey G Parker
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Maximum Strength by Eric Cressey

2017:

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel
• Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• 7 Day Startup by Dan Norris
• The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith
• The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
• Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
• The Internet of Money by Andreas Antonopolous
• Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
• The Problems with Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

2016 & 2015:

• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
• Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
• Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
• Without Their Permission by Alexis Ohanian
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson