Books

A selection of books I've read in the past few years!

2024

  1. Deep Reinforcement Learning - Sergey Levine's lectures (these are videos, but really good!)
  2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - All about Ben Franklin's life
  3. The Vignelli Canon - Short book on Massimo Vignelli's design work
  4. Never Split The Difference - Negotiating tactics with aggressive people
  5. The Rust Book - Intro to Rust
  6. In Praise of Shadows - Japanese aesthetics compared to the West
  7. Founding Sales - Startup sales (~1/2 read)
  8. Design is Storytelling - Psychology of visual perception
  9. Dune - The classic sci-fi novel (~1/4 read)
  10. The Greatest Salesman in the World - Philosophy of sales
  11. Negotiating the Impossible - Breaking deadlocks and ugly conflicts
  12. Hackers & Painters - Some interesting takes from Paul Graham
  13. The Courage to Be Disliked - About Adlerian psychology
  14. Exhalation - Ted Chiang's stories about AI
  15. Universal Principles of Design - Design patterns for everything
  16. System Design Interview - System design

2023

  1. The Design of Everyday Things - Classic book on design
  2. Emotional Design - Why we love or hate everyday things
  3. The Timeless Way of Building - A new theory of architecture about design patterns
  4. The Laws of Simplicity - Simplicity in design
  5. Notes on the Synthesis of Form - Christopher Alexander's notes on design form
  6. A New Program for Graphic Design - Graphic design
  7. Ten Principles for Good Design - Dieter Rams
  8. Designing Products People Love - Product design
  9. What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Interesting bits from Richard Feynman
  10. Zero To One - Classic book on startups
  11. Steve Jobs - Biography of Steve Jobs
  12. Elon Musk - Biography of Elon Musk
  13. Refactoring UI - How to design beautiful interfaces
  14. Founders At Work - Jessica Livingston interviews founders
  15. What's Our Problem? - Tim Urban's dive into society's problems
  16. Only the Paranoid Survive - Lessons from Andy Grove
  17. The Creative Act - Rick Rubin on creativity
  18. Designing Programmes - More design
  19. Creative Selection - Apple's Design Process
  20. Paul Graham's Essays - A billion essays

2022

  1. The Art of Negotiation - Fundamentals of negotiation by Michael Wheeler
  2. Getting to Yes with Yourself - William Ury's book on negotiation
  3. 3D Negotiation - Interesting negotiation tools
  4. The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Company lessons from Ben Horowitz
  5. What You Do Is Who You Are - Lessons on culture from Ben Horowitz
  6. Range - Generalists vs. specialists
  7. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie's classic
  8. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho's classic
  9. The Third Door - Taking creative paths to get what you want
  10. Thinking in Bets - Making smarter decisions
  11. Good for You, Great for Me - Negotiation principles
  12. The Mom Test - How to talk to customers
  13. Bargaining with the Devil - When to negotiate, when to fight
  14. Negotiation Genius - Overcoming obstacles in negotiation
  15. Beyond Winning - Negotiating to create value in deals
  16. Pre-Suasion - How to influence and persuade
  17. Negotiating the Nonnegotiable - Resolving most emotionally charged conflicts
  18. What Every Body is Saying - Body language
  19. Bargaining for Advantage - Negotiation strategies for reasonable people
  20. Beyond Reason - Using emotions as you negotiate
  21. Wining Together - The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook
  22. The Great CEO Within - Making yourself efficient
  23. Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger's wisdom
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