Books

Books are one of the main ways I learn. These are some that have stuck with me and influenced how I think and live.

I’ll add categories as the list grows.

Effective thinking and problem-solving

• The Great Mental Models (Vols 1–4) — Shane Parrish
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger — Charles T. Munger (ed. Peter Kaufman)
• Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity — John Gribbin
• Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything — Charles Conn & Robert McLean
• The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking — Barbara Minto
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer — Donella Meadows

Books that have influenced my life

• The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind — Shunryu Suzuki
• Existentialism Is a Humanism — Jean-Paul Sartre
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
• The Analects — Confucius
• The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
• Buddha’s Brain — Rick Hanson