What I'm Reading
I love reading, especially audiobooks. I also love podcasts.
I'm open to not finishing books, which I represent with a strikethrough in the list below.
I'm also open to slowly picking at books or using them as reference manuals, which I represent with an asterisk (*).
Currently Reading
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Recently Read
Salt Fat Acid Heat - Samin Nosrat
Dear Girls - Ali Wong
Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World - Anand Giridharadas
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It - Robert B. Reich
Worked Over - Jamie K McCallum
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout*
A Very Punchable Face - Colin Jost
The Year Without Pants - Scott Berkun
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn* (slowly making my way through it)
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler*
An African American and Latinx History of the United States - Paul Ortiz
How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Dichotomy of Leadership - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea -Marc Randolph
Start Small, Stay Small - Rob Walling
The Unicorn Project - Gene Kim
Who: The A method for hiring - Geoff Smart and Randy Street
The First 90 Days - Michael Watkins
Obey the Testing Goat - Harry J.W. Percival*
Letters from a Stoic - Lucius Seneca*
The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker
Objections - Jeb Blount
Sales EQ - Jeb Blount
Read in 2019
Debt - David Graeber (huge book, want to revisit)
Little Weirds - Jenny Slate
The Monk and the Riddle - Randy Komisar
Straight Talk for Startups - Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman
The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky
Ultralearning - Scott Young
What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert (huge book, want to revisit)
Good to Great - Jim Collins
The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Python Tricks - Dan Bader*
High Output Management - Andy Grove
Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
Essentialism - Greg McKeown
Toyota Kata - Mike Rother
Making Websites Win - Ben Jesson, Karl Blanks
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
Finite and Infinite Games - James P. Carse
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
Getting Things Done - David Allen
I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi
The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
No is Not Enough - Naomi Klein
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Managing Oneself - Peter F. Drucker
We Were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Manager's Path - Camille Fournier
The Last Black Unicorn - Tiffany Haddish
Company of One - Paul Jarvis
Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
Beyond the Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, John Willis
The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble
Blitzscaling - Chris Yeh, Reid Hoffman
High Growth Handbook - Elad Gil
Measure What Matters - John Doerr
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Read in 2018
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
Lost and Founder - Rand Fishkin
The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership - Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
Who Rules the World? - Noam Chomsky
Four Futures - Peter Frase
The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier
Why Nations Fail - Darron Acemoglu, James Robinson
Bossypants - Tina Fey
The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Red Notice - Bill Browder
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
The Pragmatic Programmer - Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas