| On Becoming A Person | Carls Roger | It's a bit dry, but I like some of his concepts. Being Open = Becoming Yourself |
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| Probable Impossibilities | Alan Lightman | Very beautiful book, a sense of art wielded with science. |
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| The Plague | Albert Camus | Beautiful book, with deep philosophical ideas |
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| Nichomachean Ethics | Aristotle | |||
| When Reason Goes on Holiday | Neven Sarsadic | |||
| The Scout Mindset | Julia Galef | |||
| Profiles of the Future | Arthur C Clarke | Reality is quite far off from the prediction |
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| Medieval Technology and Social Change |
Lynn White Jr. | Didn't finish, didn't really like |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | I find it okay | ||
| The Smartest Guys in the Room | Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind | It's a great reminder to not get too caught up in intellectual abstract ideas | ||
| The Copernican Revolution | Thomas S. Kuhn | Interesting read - people are scared of technology |
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| The Daily Stoic | Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman | Good reminder. Stoicism is helpful in hard times. |
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| The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | Very Deep. Tolstoy yearned for meaning in life. This is different from Camus. |
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| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Best book ever. One of the most defining books I've read |
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| Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | Didn't finish | ||
| Feynman’s Rainbow | Leonard Mlodinow | Good teaching for life |
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| Superforecasting | Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner | How to be more rational |
| The Maniac | Benjamin Labaut | Sometimes too fictionalised, but interesting overall |
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| Godel Escher Bach | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Legendary book, captivating |
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| A Mind at Play | Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman | Claude Shannon is an abstract thinker |
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| The Singularity Is Near | Ray Kurzweil | Predictions came true |
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| The Great Illusion | Norman Angell | I don't like the writing style, but its interesting book written in 1900s |
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| The Sovereign Individual | William Rees-Mogg & James Dale Davidson Wikipedia | one of my favourites |
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| Only the Paranoid Survive | Andrew S. Grove (Andy Grove) | great management book |
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| Alchemy: The Magic of Original Thinking in a World of Mind-Numbing Conformity | Rory Sutherland | very, very good book for original thinkers |
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| The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | author is optimistic |
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| Novelist as a Vocation | Haruki Murakami | wow, really beautiful |
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| On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything | Nate Silver | Didn't finish | |
| Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners | Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross | nothing too new | |
| 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy | Hamilton W. Helmer | great framework to think about |
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| Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre | Keith Johnstone | iconic book | |
| Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief and Future of West | Alex Karp | okay book | |
Up to March 2025 |
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| Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth | John Doerr | Just okay | |
| Invent and Wander | Walter Isacsoon | Gifted by PT. I realized that I have obsessive curiosity. Listen to my intuition |
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| Charlie Almanack | Stripe Press | Great tips on human pyschology. Filled with wisdom |
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| Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World | Rene Girard | This is the hardest book ive read. But concept on "Scapegoating" and "Mimetic Desire" is mindblowing |
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| Dream Machine | Stripe Press | Inspiring. I'll never take for granted how hard it was to build computers again. |
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| The Elephant in the Brain | Kevin S & Robin | Just okay. Recommended by Naval Ravikant |
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| A man for all markets | Ed Thorp | I aspire to be ed thorp, curious, healthy, principled and ALOT of freedom |
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| Am I being too subtle | Sam Zell | Love this book. Straight talking guy. |
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| Exercised: Why something we never evolved to do is healthy and rewarding | Daniel Liberman | Learnt about human body. More patient on my fitness journey |
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| Dont Sweat the Small stuff | Richard C | Just okay. | |
| The Power Law | Sebastian Mallaby | Really love this book. Concept fully ingrained in my major decision making |
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| Up Close and Personal | John Mack | Interesting history of wall street |
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| Chip War | Chris Miller | Really love this book. Curious on eccentric neurodivergent CTOs making big bets like ASML |
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| The Founders | Jimmy Soni | Stories of eccentric, intense nerds of Paypal. |
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| Between two shores | TL TSIM | Gifted by PT. Learned about the differences of East and Western culture |
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| Ego is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | Reminds me that Ego is dangerous |
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| Courage to be happy | Ichiro | I prefer his former book more |
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| Money Machine | Weijian Shan | Highly recommend! Read this and told myself " I'd never want to work with the gov/politics. Super complex" |
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| Keeping at it | Paul Volcker | Fed Chairman Paul Volcker is our hero! Man of character. If i go through tough times, i read him |
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| Think again | Adam Grant | just okay | |
| Negotiation | Brian tracy | Just okay | |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | Love this book! Fave Negotiation book |
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| Do Nothing | Celeste | Just okay, but reminder to hyperactive tiffany to chill. |
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| How to lead | David Rubenstein | I like Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon's part. |
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| Born to Run 2 | Chris Mc Dougall | Gifted by PT. Interesting book on running and certainly inspires one to run |
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| Atomic Habits | James Clear | Good reminder of incorporating good habits |
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| Money Games | Weijian Shan | Highly recommend. Another book from Weijian. Met him in person. Love this detailed story on PE |
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| Deep Work | Cal Newport | Attention span of Gen Z is terrible, mine included. |
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| No Filter | Sarah Frier | Felt like im being pulled to entrepreneurship after reading this. Story of 0 to 1 of Instagram |
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| No Rules Rules : Netflix | Reed Hastings | I want to work in this sort of culture. Netflix culture interests me, but am not passionate about the industry |
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| The Unthered Soul: Journey beyond oneself | Michael Singer | Sam altman recommended. Spritual Fulfillment |
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| Hidden Potential | Adam Grant | Just okay | |
| Option B | Adam Grant & Sheryl Sandberg | Just okay | |
| Range | David Epstein | Just okay | |
| Empire of Pain | Patrick Keefe | Super interesting read on drugs abuse in US. |
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| Biggest Bluff | Maria K | I dont like | |
| Time to breathe | Bill M | Just okay. Bought it when i was stressed. By the time i start reading it, i wasnt stressed at all. |
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| The Geek Way | Andrew Mc Fee | Felt like he's describing me - obsessive curiosity, creative self starter who pushes the walls & limits |
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| Ikigai | Hector | Just okay | |
| More Money than God - Hedge Funds & The Making of Elite | Sebastian Mallaby | Fun read | |
| Man Search for Meaning | Victor Frankl | Inspiring read, it's all about purpose/meaning |
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| How to win friends & influence people | Dale Carnegie | I get it, but wont follow 100% of it. Good for people who wants to learn EQ |
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| Man who solved the market | Gregory Z | Jim Simons inspires me to pursue the unknown path - he too struggled. Be guided by beauty |
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| Black Swan | Nassim Taleb | Inspires me to pursue " low probability, high EV" stuff |
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| Pyschology of Money | Morgan Housel | Recommend to all young people |
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| Market Wizards | Jack S | Story of Ed Seykota & Stan Druckenmiller is interesting |
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| New Market Wizards | Jack S | Recommend to those doing markets |
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| Hedge Fund Market Wizards | Jack S | ^ | |
| The Essays of Warren Buffet | i'm not into value investing |
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| Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver | You have a short life! Recommended to people in limbo |
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| Hillbilly Elegy | Jd Vance | Cried in first chapter. Didnt know that extreme sadistic part of US. |
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| Flashboys | Michael Lewis | Just okay | |
| The undoing project | Michael Lewis | Interesting! | |
| Thinking fast and slow | Daniel K | Complex read for 20 year old Tiff |
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| Boomerang | Michael Lewis | Crazy cheap financing during 2000s. "Madness is crowds are more common than individual" |
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| What it takes | Steve Schwarzman | Inspiring entrepreneur |
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| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | wow, his business almost died multiple times |
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| Total Recall | Arnold Sch | Didnt finish it, not really my style and too long, haha! |
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| How will you measure your life | Clayton | Tiffy, its all about fulfillment and principles! |
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| The power of now | Eck T | Great reminder to focus on present |
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| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon | Just okay. | |
| Cant hurt me | David Goggins | its all about mindset |
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| Grit | Angela Duckworth | just okay, good self reminder |
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| The unwinding of miracle | Julie Ip | underrated inspiring memoir. she had a crazy life. LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST |
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| When Breath becomes Air | Paul | Life is short, heartfelt book |
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| What i talk about when i talk about running | Murakami | Love this book - it's never too late to start running |
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| Good to Great | Jim Collins | From PT List. Talent is all about 1 + 1 = 3 |
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| The Monk who sold his Ferrari | Robin Sharma | From PT List. Do things the things that fear you most |
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| Start with Why | Simon Sinek | Inspire others! | |
| Never Eat Alone | Keith Ferrazi | Great book to learn networking |
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| Courage to be disliked | Fumitake Toga | Great book to read at 19 |