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)