Books

Books are one of the main ways I learn. Out of years of reading widely, these are the ones that have meaningfully shaped how I think and live.

I’ll add categories as the list grows.

Decision-making, problem-solving, and operational efficiency

• 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)
• 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
• Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity — John Gribbin

Books that have deeply influenced my life

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