Reading
I love reading. Sci-fi and fantasy are favorites, but I also spend a lot of time on business, investing, history, and anything that helps me understand how the world works.
This is a running list of books and in-depth articles I've found valuable over the years. If you have any recommendations, please reach out.
230 items total
2025
- The Nvidia Way - Tae Kim(Business)
- Capex & Opex Supercycles - Hemant Mohapatra(Article)
- Wind & Truth - Brandon Sanderson(Fantasy)
- Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies - Igor Tulchinsky(Investing)
- Quantitative Trading - Ernest Chan(Investing)
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan(History)
- AI Firm - Dwarkesh Patel(Article)
- A History of the Future - L Rudolf L(Article)
- AI: Dystopia or Utopia? - Vinod Khosla(Article)
- The World After Capital - Albert Wenger(Tech & VC)
- A Primer on US Healthcare - Eric Flaningam(Article)
- AI Market Clarity - Elad Gil(Article)
- The Land series - Aleron Kong(Fantasy)
- The Wandering Inn series - pirateaba(Fantasy)
- The Licanius Trilogy - James Islington(Fantasy)
- The Will of the Many (Hierarchy Series) - James Islington(Fantasy)
- Dungeon Crawler Carl series - Jeff Hays(Fantasy)
- The Original - Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal(Sci-Fi)
- Play Nice But Win - Michael Dell(Biography)
- Ibn Saud - Michael Darlow(Biography)
- The Humble Investor - Daniel Rasmussen(Investing)
- Hardball - George Stalk(Business)
- The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son - G Ng(Business)
2024
- What Happened to the US Machine Tool Industry? - Brian Potter(Article)
- The RAG Revolution: The Future of Computing - Chris Zeoli(Article)
- How to land and convert your first defense pilots - Nini Hamrick(Article)
- Warfare 2.0: AI for Situational Awareness - Pendulum(Article)
- Building in America - Maggie Gray(Article)
- The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems - Berkeley AI Research(Article)
- A Techno-Industrialist Manifesto - Aaron Slodov(Article)
- The Practice Of Value Investing - Li Lu(Article)
- Valuation Multiples - Michael Mauboussin(Article)
- The New Era of Mining - Anna-Sofia Lesiv(Article)
- Startup Risk - Kevin Mahaffey(Article)
- Mistborn Wax & Wayne Series - Brandon Sanderson(Fantasy)
- The Silvers Series - Daniel Price(Sci-Fi)
- The Box - Marc Levinson(History)
- 2054 - Elliot Ackerman(Fiction)
- Fourth Wing & Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros(Fantasy)
- Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson(Fantasy)
- The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant(History)
- The Wealth of Shadows - Graham Moore(Fiction)
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons(Sci-Fi)
- Moscow X - David McCloskey(Fiction)
- How to Build an AI Data Center - Brian Potter(Article)
- Reamde - Neal Stephenson(Fiction)
- A Primer on Data Warehouses & Data Lakehouses - Eric Flaningham(Article)
- Building the World's Best Venture Firm - Demren Sinik(Article)
- Am I Being Too Subtle? - Sam Zell(Biography)
- A Technical Guide for Founders & Operators Building Agents - Activant(Article)
- How to Hire a CTO - Khosla Ventures(Article)
- Advanced Portfolio Management - Giuseppe Paleologo(Investing)
- The Cradle Series - Will Wight(Fantasy)
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Daniel Yergin(History)
- Invisible asymptotes in vertical software - Matt Brown(Article)
- Machines of Loving Grace - Dario Amodei(Article)
- Defensibility Series - Kevin Mahaffey(Article)
- Data Centers - SemiAnalysis & Generative Value(Article)
- On China - Henry Kissinger(History)
- The Mercy of Gods - James S. A. Corey(Sci-Fi)
- Polostan - Neal Stephenson(Fiction)
- Lee Kuan Yew: Insights on China, The US, and the World - Graham Allison(History)
2023
- Changing Fortunes - Paul Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten(History)
- Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson(Fantasy)
- Nuclear energy: past, present, and future - Julia DeWahl(Article)
- The Three-Body Problem: Finding the New Stable Points in VC - Frank Rotman(Article)
- 2034 - Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis(Fiction)
- Geopolitics are Changing. Venture Capital Must, Too - Hemant Tenaja & Fareed Zakaria(Article)
- Inflection Points - Michael Dempsey(Article)
- The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson(Fantasy)
- Startup Decoupling & Reckoning - Elad Gil(Article)
- Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics - Eric Schmidt(Article)
- The U.S. Is Not Yet Ready for the Era of 'Great Power' Conflict - Michael Gordon(Article)
- Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption - Atlantic Council(Article)
- Space Launch: Are We Heading For Oversupply or a Shortfall? - McKinsey & Company(Article)
- The Race to $100B: The Palo Alto Networks Story - Francis & Rak Garg(Article)
- Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology - Chris Miller(History)
- Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle - Marathon Asset Management(Investing)
- Delta-v - Daniel Suarez(Sci-Fi)
- Breakfast With Pops - Adam Draper(Biography)
- eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work - Randall Stross(Tech & VC)
- The Grid - Brian Potter(Article)
- Is payments a race to the bottom? - Simon Taylor(Article)
- Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown(Sci-Fi)
- The Freight Ecosystem - Eli Dukes(Article)
- Can open source be too open? - Philip Clark(Article)
- Problems for Adyen and Paypal in the competitive payments landscape - Tech Fund(Article)
- Food For Thought: The Potential Ripple Effect of GLP1s - Zach Reitano(Article)
- The Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson(Fantasy)
- Nvidia Envy: understanding the GPU gold rush - John Luttig(Article)
- Welding and the Automation Frontier - Brian Potter(Article)
- How to Scale Nuclear Power - Ryan McEntush(Article)
- Cable Cowboy: John Malone & the rise of the modern cable-TV business - Mark Robichaux(Biography)
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy - Hamilton Helmer(Business)
- White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan - Major General Mick Ryan(Defense & Geopolitics)
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel(Investing)
- Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in WWII - Arthur Herman(History)
2022
- Mastering the Market Cycle - Howard Marks(Investing)
- The Power Law: Venture Capital & the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby(Tech & VC)
- Upgrade - Blake Crouch(Sci-Fi)
- The Bond King - Mary Childs(Biography)
- How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton Christensen(Business)
- Atomic Awakening: New Look at the History & Future of Nuclear Power - James Mahaffey(History)
- The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss(Fantasy)
- The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss(Fantasy)
- Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson(Fantasy)
- The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - Christian Brose(Defense & Geopolitics)
- Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson(Fantasy)
2021
- Daemon - Daniel Suarez(Sci-Fi)
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar, Bill Carr(Business)
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein(Investing)
- Kings of Crypto - Jeff John Roberts(Tech & VC)
- The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis(Business)
- Angel: How to invest in Technology Startups - Jason Calacanis(Tech & VC)
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine(Sci-Fi)
- Dark Matter - Blake Crouch(Sci-Fi)
- Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok & ByteDance - Matthew Brennan(Tech & VC)
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir(Sci-Fi)
- Fallen Leaves - Will Durant(History)
- Radical Candor - Kim Scott(Business)
- Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase - Duff McDonald(Biography)
- Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke(Business)
2020
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman(Biography)
- Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer(Sci-Fi)
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari(History)
- The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger(Biography)
- Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance(Biography)
- The Man Who Solved the Market - Gregory Zuckerman(Investing)
- What it Takes - Stephen Schwarzman(Biography)
- The Holdout - Graham Moore(Fiction)
- The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson(Sci-Fi)
- Polar Vortex - Matt Mather(Sci-Fi)
- Burn In - P. W. Singer(Sci-Fi)
- The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner(Biography)
- The Algebra of Happiness - Scott Galloway(Business)
- Enemy of All Mankind - Steven Johnson(History)
- The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt(Fiction)
- Tape Sucks: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story - Frank Slootman(Tech & VC)
- The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel(Investing)
2019
- Destined for War - Graham Allison(Defense & Geopolitics)
- The Fixer - Bradley Tusk(Business)
- Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson(Sci-Fi)
- Educated - Tara Westover(Biography)
- The Broken Earth Trilogy - N.K. Jemisin(Fantasy)
- Made in America - Sam Walton(Biography)
- The Expanse Series (Books 1-3, 5) - James Corey(Sci-Fi)
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand(Fiction)
- I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes(Fiction)
- Vicious - V.E. Schwab(Fantasy)
- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland(Sci-Fi)
- Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo(Fantasy)
- Shadow and Bone Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo(Fantasy)
- The Demon Under the Microscope - Thomas Hager(History)
- City of Thieves - David Benioff(Fiction)
- The Last Days of Night - Graham Moore(Fiction)
- The Sherlockian - Graham Moore(Fiction)
- Circe - Madeline Miller(Fantasy)
- The Alice Network - Kate Quinn(Fiction)
- The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen(Biography)
- Red Notice - Bill Browder(Biography)
- Amazon.com: Get Big Fast - Robert Spector(Tech & VC)
- A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - Tren Griffin(Business)
- Bitcoin Billionaires - Ben Mezrich(Tech & VC)
- Dune - Frank Herbert(Sci-Fi)
- The 25th Hour - David Benioff(Fiction)
- Recursion - Blake Crouch(Sci-Fi)
- The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley(Sci-Fi)
- The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller(Fantasy)
- Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder(History)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz(Business)
- Bobiverse Series - Dennis Taylor(Sci-Fi)
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles(Fiction)
- The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman(Fantasy)
- Exhalation - Ted Chiang(Sci-Fi)
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor(Tech & VC)
- Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt(Business)
- What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz(Business)
- That Will Never Work - Marc Randolph(Tech & VC)
- A Man For All Markets - Edward Thorp(Investing)
- Team of Teams - Stanley McChrystal(Business)
2018
- Subscribed - Tien Tzuo(Business)
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway(Fiction)
- CyberStorm - Matthew Mather(Sci-Fi)
- The Financial Diaries - Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider(Business)
- The Spider Network - David Enrich(Business)
- All Systems Red - Martha Wells(Sci-Fi)
- Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse(Fiction)
- The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky(Business)
- Powerful - Patty McCord(Business)
- Shackleton's Way - Margot Morrell(Biography)
- Bad Blood - John Carreyou(Tech & VC)
- Dollars and Sense - Dan Ariely(Business)
- On Grand Strategy - John Lewis Gaddis(History)
- Artemis - Andy Weir(Sci-Fi)
- How the Other Half Banks - Mehrsa Baradaran(Business)
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni(Business)
- Billion Dollar Whale - Bradley Hope, Tom Wright(Business)
- Who is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz(Biography)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll(Fiction)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez(Fiction)
- Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely(Business)
- When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi(Biography)
- The House of Morgan - Ron Chernow(History)
- Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson(Biography)
- Walt Disney - Neal Gabler(Biography)
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer(Biography)
- Executive Orders & Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy(Fiction)
- Ghost Fleet - P.W. Singer & August Cole(Fiction)
- The Three-Body Problem Series - Cixin Liu(Sci-Fi)
- Station Eleven - Emily St. John(Sci-Fi)
- Bandwidth - Eliot Peper(Sci-Fi)
2017
- Option B - Sheryl Sandberg(Business)
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand(Fiction)
- Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg(Business)
- Stealing Fire - Steven Kotler(Business)
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline(Sci-Fi)
- The Mission, the Men, and Me - Pete Blaber(Biography)
- Grit - Angela Duckworth(Business)
- The Great Bridge - David McCullough(History)
- The Power Broker - Robert Caro(Biography)
- The New Tycoons - Jason Kelly(Investing)
- Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink(Business)
- Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss(Business)
- The Upstarts - Brad Stone(Tech & VC)
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari(History)
- Financially Fearless - Alexa von Tobel(Business)
- The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu(Sci-Fi)
- The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh(Business)
- Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton(Tech & VC)
- Who Says Elephants Can't Dance - Louis Gerstner(Business)