Books
975 books. Summaries and notes for some.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Vagabond's Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel
Rolf Potts
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Olivia Fox Cabane
Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield
Do the Work
Steven Pressfield
The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness
Pema Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
Gordon Livingston
Happy: Why more or less everything is absolutely fine
Derren Brown
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Finan
Anthony Robbins
The Relationship Handbook: A Simple Guide to Satisfying Relationships
George S. Pransky
Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
Russell "Russ" Roberts
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Robin I.M. Dunbar
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Peter Pomerantsev
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music
William Allaudin Mathieu
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman
How to Live a Good Life: Choosing the Right Philosophy of Life for You
Massimo Pigliucci
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
Thomas Nagel
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
Simon Blackburn
A Little History of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton
The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
Arthur C. Brooks
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Arthur C. Brooks
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
A Short History of Decay
Emil M. Cioran
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Walter Kaufmann
Functional Programming in Scala
Rúnar Bjarnason
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Matt Dinniman
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)
James Islington
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Pierce Brown
The Right to Be Lazy
Paul Lafargue
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn
On Living and Dying Well (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
William Strunk Jr.
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Dan Ariely
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution
Paul Watzlawick
The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development
Robert Kegan
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Shunryu Suzuki
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
Scott Barry Kaufman
The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life (The Pathless Path Collection Book 1)
Paul Millerd
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Elizabeth Gilbert
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)
James B. Stockdale
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less
Dan Sullivan
The 12 Week Year
Brian P. Moran
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
Dan Sullivan
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think
Lion Kimbro
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Sebastian Mallaby
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Werner Herzog
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky
A Secular Age
Charles Margrave Taylor
The New Emotional Intelligence
Travis Bradberry
Emotional Intelligence Habits
Travis Bradberry
The Science of Scaling: Grow Your Business Bigger and Faster Than You Think Possible
Benjamin Hardy
Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
Ingrid Clayton
Are You Mad at Me?
Meg Josephson
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Brené Brown
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Steve Blank
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
Ken Follett
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Larry McMurtry
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide
Samir Chopra
The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life by Arthur C. Brooks
Arthur C. Brooks
The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups
Colin M. Fisher
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
Joseph Jebelli
Dealing With Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want
Marc Brackett
Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
Mark Epstein
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West
Period Piece (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
Gwen Raverat
Intimations of mortality
Violet Weingarten
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Arthur C. Clarke
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley
The Plague
Albert Camus
The Fall (Vintage International)
Albert Camus
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
On Character: Choices That Define a Life
Stanley McChrystal
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
James B. Stockdale
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
Rutger Bregman
Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
Seneca
Montaigne
Stefan Zweig
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper
The Non-Designer's Design Book
Robin P. Williams
How To See
George Nelson
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Ellen Lupton
Laws of UX: Using Psychology to Design Better Products & Services
Jon Yablonski
Refactoring UI
Adam Wathan
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
John Steinbeck
The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance
Joshua Glasgow
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
John M. Barry
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
Frederic Morton
And the Sea Will Tell
Vincent Bugliosi
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations
Robert Greene
A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul
Leo Tolstoy
Time and the Art of Living
Robert Grudin
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
Publilius Syrus
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
The Essential Epicurus
Epicurus
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fragments
Heraclitus
Civil War Stories
Ambrose Bierce
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
George Horace Lorimer
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
Robert A. Caro
Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Small Gods (Discworld, #13)
Terry Pratchett
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
The Millionaire Fast Lane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
M.J. DeMarco
The Phoenix Pencil Company
Allison King
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Stoner
John Williams
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
Abundance
Ezra Klein
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
David F. Swensen
The Strategy Dialogues: A Primer on Business Strategy and Strategic Management
John Hillen
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day
Ichiro Kishimi
Spy Camp (Spy School #2)
Stuart Gibbs
Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities
Rebecca Reider
The Count of Monte Cristo (AmazonClassics Edition)
Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony
L Poundie Burstein
The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis (The Musician's Guide Series)
Jane Piper Clendinning
我的前半生-爱新觉罗·溥仪自传
Pu Yi
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
Larry Niven
The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
图说中国绘画史
James Cahill
写给中国人的绘画简史(精)/中国绘画史简明普及读本
陈师曾
The history of Chinese calligraphy (Chinese Edition)
Anonymous
The Philosophy Book (DK Big Ideas)
D.K. Publishing
素履之往
Mu Xin
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide
Judy Carter
Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
Ray Kurzweil
Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours
Noah Kagan
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
长安的荔枝
Ma Boyong
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People--Their Secrets, Their Stories
Rick Foster
On The Tranquility Of The Mind
Seneca
The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama XIV
The Decisive Moment: Photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Interviews and Conversations (1951-1998)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Kevin Simler
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Nick Lane
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Peter Zeihan
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond
Judith S. Beck
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry
Seth J. Gillihan
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think
Dennis Greenberger
The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu: v. 1: Infinite Patience; Immediate Results
Colin Turner
101 Ways to Be Less Stressed: Simple Self-Care Strategies to Boost Your Mind, Mood, and Mental Health
Caroline Leaf
Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
J. Krishnamurti
The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
J. Krishnamurti
The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 2
Timothy Ferriss
The Wisdom of Life
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
The Book of General Ignorance
John Lloyd
SEO 2014: Learn Search Engine Optimization with Smart Internet Marketing Strategies
Adam Clarke
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Andrew Roberts
Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People: A decision-making guide for uncommon success
Eric Jorgenson
The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
Alex Banayan
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
Brianna Wiest
Energize: Make the Most of Every Moment
Simon Alexander Ong
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
Bob Burg
The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu Realising Desires; Needing Nothing
Colin. Turner
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Celeste Headlee
How To Live An Extraordinary Life
Anthony Pompliano
The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
Robert I. Sutton
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
Bill Perkins
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Roger Crowley
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Patrick Rothfuss
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
Carlos Castaneda
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger
Science Fictions
Stuart Ritchie
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Marshall McLuhan
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
Christopher H. Achen
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Timothy C. Winegard
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Galápagos
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Man Without a Country
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Bill Burnett
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Steven Levitsky
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right
Gorick Ng
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide
Brian Fugere
Systematics : How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
John Gall
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron
Strategy: A History
Lawrence Freedman
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
Rebecca Yarros
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
David D. Burns
Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again
Jeffrey E. Young
Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
John Gribbin
Ice Age
John Gribbin
Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Garrett Hardin
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Bent Flyvbjerg
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Kissinger: A Biography
Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Creative Doing: 75 Practical Exercises to Unblock Your Creative Potential in Your Work, Hobby, or Next Career
Herbert Lui
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Peter Block
Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3)
C.J. Cherryh
Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2)
Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
Vernor Vinge
The Lions of Al-Rassan
Guy Gavriel Kay
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Seymour Papert
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Abraham Pais
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Elinor Ostrom
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
Against Method
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
Imre Lakatos
Problem-Solving Through Problems (Problem Books in Mathematics)
Loren C. Larson
The Last Days of Socrates
Plato
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Dan Senor
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller
Zero K
Don DeLillo
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Norton Paperback)
Avi Shlaim
The Question of Palestine
Edward W. Said
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Norman G. Finkelstein
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
The Art of Rhetoric
Aristotle
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
Antonio Padilla
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn
The Essays: A Selection (Penguin Classics)
Michel de Montaigne
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche
Sue Prideaux
The Republic of Plato
Plato
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example
Mike Hendrickson
Who: The A Method for Hiring
Geoff Smart
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Robert F. Kennedy
Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Winston S. Churchill
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Martin Hägglund
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
Eric Jorgenson
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Millerzz
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us About the Hardest Mystery of All
Scott Samuelson
A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Bertrand Russell
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
Mark Levi
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy (Dover Books on Mathematics)
J.D. Williams
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
Lewis Carroll Epstein
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
Scott Adams
The Tao of Philosophy: The Edited Transcripts (The Love of Wisdom Library)
Alan W. Watts
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
Kamal Ravikant
The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
Anthony de Mello
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Bruce Lee
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Great Challenge
Ronnie Govender Osho
The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
Osho
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Jed McKenna's Notebook
Jed McKenna
Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything
Jed McKenna
Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God.
Kapil Gupta
A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living
Kapil Gupta
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan W. Watts
Jed Talks #2: Away from the Things of Man
Jed McKenna
Jed Talks #1: Essays, Teachings, Rants & Frivolous Frivolity
Jed McKenna
Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
Kapil Gupta
Freedom from the Known
J. Krishnamurti
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert B. Cialdini
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
Thermoinfocomplexity: A New Theory: Origin of Life and Evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems
Behzad Mohit
The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Reality is Not What it Seems
Carlo Rovelli
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations (from the Beaten Track): The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Richard P. Feynman
The Undercover Economist
Tim Harford
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Timothy Ferriss
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach
Douglas N. Walton
A Rulebook for Arguments
Anthony Weston
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Madsen Pirie
The Depths of the Valley (satire about big companies)
Mukund Sundararajan
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup (Disciplined Entrepreneurship Series)
Bill Aulet
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
定性与半定量物理学
赵凯华
You and Your Research
Richard Hamming
Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
J. Storrs Hall
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Cliff Kuang
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Richard Hamming
Palimpsest
Gore Vidal
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
Isabel Briggs Myers
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Cade Metz
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Tim Higgins
The Freelancer's Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Career of Your Dreams―On Your Terms
Sara Horowitz
The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships
Lois J. Zachary
The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman
Jobs to be Done: Theory to Practice
Anthony W. Ulwick
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
Ryan Holiday
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven D. Levitt
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook 25th Anniversary Edition: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
John C. Maxwell
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
Dale Carnegie
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
John C. Maxwell
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Gay Hendricks
An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling
Mark A. Pinsky
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam M. Grant
The Red Book: Liber Novus
C.G. Jung
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Michael C. Feathers
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
Kent Beck
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
Michael T. Nygard
All the President’s Men
Carl Bernstein
Beyond the Goal: Eliyahu Goldratt Speaks on the Theory of Constraints (Your Coach In A Box)
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
Scott Meyers
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
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