Reading
Not everything I've read. Just the ones that changed how I think.
engineering
Designing Data-Intensive Applications · Martin Kleppmann
Deep Learning · Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville
Clean Code · Robert C. Martin
The Phoenix Project · Gene Kim
Introduction to Logic · Alfred Tarski
startups
The Hard Thing About Hard Things · Ben Horowitz
Superforecasting · Philip Tetlock
The Psychology of Money · Morgan Housel
fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo · Alexandre Dumas
Anna Karenina · Leo Tolstoy
Dune · Frank Herbert
Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Name of the Wind · Patrick Rothfuss
Divine Comedy: Inferno · Dante Alighieri
A Song of Ice and Fire · George R.R. Martin
thinking
Man's Search for Meaning · Viktor Frankl
Letters from a Stoic · Seneca
Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman
Mindset · Carol Dweck
Thinking in Systems · Donella Meadows
The Human Network · Matthew O. Jackson
philosophy
Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
The Enchiridion · Epictetus
Nicomachean Ethics · Aristotle
The Republic · Plato
Beyond Good and Evil · Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra · Friedrich Nietzsche
The Myth of Sisyphus · Albert Camus
Tao Te Ching · Lao Tzu
psychology
The Denial of Death · Ernest Becker
Memories, Dreams, Reflections · Carl Jung
Maps of Meaning · Jordan B. Peterson
The Body Keeps the Score · Bessel van der Kolk
Flow · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Influence · Robert Cialdini
Civilization and Its Discontents · Sigmund Freud
essays
How to Do Great Work · Paul Graham
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius · Paul Graham
Do Things That Don't Scale · Paul Graham
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule · Paul Graham
How to Start a Startup · Paul Graham