Worldly

Practical reads on building companies, keeping money, and understanding how power and institutions shape the world.

Startups

The collection of most impactful startup execution texts I have gone through. Whether you want to work on an indie company or a scaled startup, these are some good reads for general perspectives:

• Only the Paranoid Survive
• Start small, stay small
• Remote: Office not required
• The Managers Path
• Company of One
• Zero to One
• Staff Engineers
• GenAI and engineering teams
• Fundraising
• High Output Management
• Blitzscaling
• The Startup of You
• 4-hour workweek
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Shoe Dog
• The Checklist Manifesto
• The Lean Startup
• Play Nice But Win
• What got you here, wont take you there
• No Rules Rules
• Choosing Startup Life

Wealth

Its hard to earn money, and harder to keep it with you.

• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
• Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits
• Big Debt Crisis
• The Mastery of Capital
• Lets talk Money
• Die with Zero

Society

Books about how power, institutions, inequality, and collective stories shape the world we live in.

• 1984
• Atlas Shrugged
• Brave New World
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman
• How to Lie with Statistics
• Success and Luck (Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy)
• The Case Against Education
• The Great Escape
• The Human Zoo
• The Lessons of History
• The Life of Alexander the Great
• The Origins of Political Order
• The Revolt of the Elites
• The Rights of Man
• The Tyranny of Merit

Some wonderful talks:

• Justice
• Mass Immigration