Bookshelf.
Reading is one of the best things you can do. I haven't read all of these — favourites are in accent colour. They are listed in no particular order.
- The art of doing science and engineering
- The computer and the brain
- Chip war
- The structure of scientific revolutions
- Skin in the game
- The black swan
- Antifragile
- The bed of procrustes
- Anna
- Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Walt Disney
- Building moonshot
- Atomic habits
- The lean startup
- The almanack of Naval Ravikant
- The solitude of prime numbers
- Sapiens
- Six easy pieces
- Pressure
- Invention and innovation
- The three-body problem
- The dark forest
- Death's end
- Work
- Why greatness cannot be planned
- The art of war
- I am a strange loop
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Stranger in a strange land
- The diamond age
- Dune
- The art of electronics
- When the Heavens went on sale
- Range
- Where is my flying car
- Poor Charlie's almanack
- Radical candor
- Elon Musk
- Steve Jobs
- How to be a founder
- The mom test
- Build
- Security analysis
- The intelligent investor
- Lessons of History
- From zero to one
- The british industrial revolution in global perspective
- Entangled life
- The defining decade
- Fierce conversations
- Outliers
- How the world really works
- … more soon.
Reading picks, by year.
- 2025
The Computer and the Brain (von Neumann), Build (Fadell).
- 2024
Elementary fluid dynamics (Acheson), The art of doing science and engineering (Hamming), Biology (Campbell), Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (Stanley, Lehman), Lessons of History (Durant).
- 2023
Optimization by Vector Space methods (Luenberger), Variational Analysis (Rockafellar), Gradient Flows (Ambrosio, Gigli and Savaré), The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Allen), Entangled Life (Sheldrake), How To Be a Founder (Bentinck), The defining decade (Jay), Radical Candor (Scott).
Bookmarks.
Essays & writers
Podcasts
- Founders
- Generally Intelligent
- … but I rarely listen to podcasts/music nowadays — I prefer thinking/doing nothing.