Bookshelf

Pictured: Water Lilies (1914-1926), Claude Monet

Currently Reading

Understanding Distributed Systems

Roberto Vitillo

Library (in no particular order)

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

David S. Landes

Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

Vaclav Smil

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069

William Strauss, Neil Howe

Discourses on Livy

Niccolo Machiavelli

Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos

Hardeep Singh Puri

The Arabs - A History

Eugene Rogan

The Landmark Herodotus - The Histories

edited by Robert B. Strassler

The Art of War in the Middle Ages

C.W.C Oman

The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the notes of James Madison

Edward J. Larson and Michael P. Winship

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison

The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from His Written and Spoken Words

J. Christopher Herold

Skunk Works - A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

Ben R. Rich

The Network State

Balaji Srinivasan

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin

Creativity Inc.

Ed Catmull

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Christopher Ryan

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

The House of Morgan

Ron Chernow

The Ascent of Money - Financial history of the World

Niall Ferguson

Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

The Outsiders - Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

William N. Thorndike

Judgment Under Uncertainty - Heuristics and Biases

Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky

Up All Night - Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Lisa Napoli

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

Barbarians at the Gate - The Fall of RJR Nabisco

Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

The Way of the World - From The Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

David Fromkin

The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Luke Burgis

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Stephen Hawking

Ulysses

James Joyce

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

The Dip - A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Seth Godin

Thucydides - A Comprehensive Guide to the Peoponnesian War

Edited by Robert B. Strassler

Super Pumped - The Battle for Uber

Mike Isaac

Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's (1938-1940)

Susan Ronald

The Law

Frederic Bastiat

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

Secrets of Sand Hill Road

Scott Kupor

The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

Isaac Asimov

The One Sentence Persuasion Course

Blair Warren

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes

The Age of Napoleon

Will & Ariel Durant

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill (Visions of Glory, 1874-1932)

William Manchester

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill (Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965)

William Manchester, Paul Reid

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Brad Jacobs

A Crack in Creation

Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg

The Spiritual Brain

Mario Beauregard, Denyse O'leary

New Atlantis

Francis Bacon

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Edward Shepherd Creasy

Medieval Technology and Social Change

Lynn White

Writing An Interpreter In Go

Thorsten Ball

Crafting Interpreters

Robert Nystrom

Ideas that Created the Future

Harry R. Lewis

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy

Henry Kissinger

The Enlightened Economy

Joel Mokyr

From Third World to First: The Singapore Story

Lee Kuan Yew

Quantum Computing since Democritus

Scott Aaronson

Age of Ambition

Evan Osnos

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

Venture Deals

Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson

Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories

Udayan Gupta

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander et al.

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

Jim Collins

Jackpot

Michael Mechanic

Lord of Light

Kathryn Le Veque

Genome

Matt Ridley

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Samin Nosrat

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

The Macintosh Way

Guy Kawasaki

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Grand Design: The Earth from Above

Georg Gerster

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Ted Chiang

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

The Courage to be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

Taking the Work Out of Networking

Karen Wickre

From Dawn to Decadence

Jacques Barzun

Modern Control Engineering

Katsuhiko Ogata