Reading

Books by genre, from my Audible library and my bookshelf. I'll put the rest up as I get to it.

Engineering

  • The Algorithm Design Manual
    Steven S. Skiena
  • The Manager's Path
    Camille Fournier

Product

  • Actionable Gamification
    Yu-kai Chou Chou draws what keeps people doing something as eight drives on an octagon, and calls it Octalysis. Points, badges and leaderboards mostly feed one of them, the one he says is easiest to design for. The game on my site follows it: the points and milestones are yours, nothing here ranks anybody, and the two eggs are his curiosity drive.
  • Decode and Conquer
    Lewis C. Lin
  • Measure What Matters
    John Doerr
  • The Design of Everyday Things
    Don Norman

Systems and thinking

  • Algorithms to Live By
    Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  • Clear Thinking
    Shane Parrish
  • Homo Deus
    Yuval Noah Harari
  • Immune
    Philipp Dettmer
  • Predictably Irrational
    Dan Ariely
  • Range
    David Epstein
  • The Art of Logic
    Eugenia Cheng
  • The Wealth of Nations
    Adam Smith
  • What If?
    Randall Munroe

Startups and business

  • Blue Ocean Strategy
    W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
  • Creativity, Inc.
    Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
  • Good to Great
    Jim Collins
  • Influence
    Robert B. Cialdini
  • Radical Candor
    Kim Scott
  • Rework
    Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Start with Why
    Simon Sinek
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
    Ben Horowitz
  • The Intelligent Investor
    Benjamin Graham
  • The McKinsey Mind
    Ethan M. Rasiel and Paul N. Friga
  • The Talent Masters
    Bill Conaty and Ram Charan
  • Trillion Dollar Coach
    Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
  • Zero to One
    Peter Thiel

Self-improvement

  • A Guide to Stress Free Living
    Om Swami
  • Atomic Habits
    James Clear
  • Ikigai
    Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
  • Let's Talk Money
    Monika Halan
  • Master Your Emotions
    Thibaut Meurisse
  • The 10X Rule
    Grant Cardone
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
    Stephen R. Covey
  • The Courage to Be Disliked
    Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga