Books

A collection of the top five books I enjoyed the most, ordered by the year I read them.

2022

• High Output Management by Andrew Grove
• What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
• Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know by Mark Jeffery

2021

• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

2020

• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Donald N. Thompson
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell

2019

• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

2018

• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
• Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

2017

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin