Books I’ve Read


Art & Creativity

  • Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson

  • Turning Pro – Steven Pressfield

  • Do The Work – Steven Pressfield

  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport

  • Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon

  • Show Your Work – Austin Kleon

Human Psychology

  • The Like Switch – Jack Schafer

  • The Power of Your Subconscious Mind – Joseph Murphy

  • The New Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz

Entrepreneurship & Product Building

  • Exactly What to Say – Phil M. Jones

  • Build – Tony Fadell

  • Anything You Want – Derek Sivers

  • Built to Sell – John Warrillow

  • The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber

  • Fake It Make It – Amir Khella

  • INSPIRED – Marty Cagan

  • Key Person of Influence – Daniel Priestley

  • Authority – Nathan Barry

  • The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick

Leadership & Performance

  • What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith

  • Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness – Tim Grover

  • Relentless – Tim Grover

  • The Golden Rules – Bob Bowman

  • The Manager’s Path – Camille Fournier

Self-Mastery & Mindset

  • The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch

  • Atomic Habits – James Clear

  • Grit – Angela Duckworth

  • The One Thing – Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

  • The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrod

  • The Seven Day Mental Diet – Emmet Fox

  • The Success Principles – Jack Canfield

  • Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl

  • As a Man Thinketh – James Allen

  • Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul – Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen

  • MONEY Master the Game – Tony Robbins

Biographies & Case Studies

  • Becoming Steve Jobs – Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli

  • Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance

  • Total Recall – Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson

  • Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh

Technical / Science

  • Algorithms – Robert Sedgewick

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry – Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Sleep Smarter – Shawn Stevenson

Fiction & Misc

  • Matchmaking for Beginners – Maddie Dawson

  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman