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You can think of this website as the place where I share my thoughts and the lessons I’ve learned over the years from great masters and extensive study. Below, I have added a list of the books that are currently on the bookshelf in my office and that I talk about often in my articles. Hopefully you will use them as inspiration for your own reading material and future study.
The Conquest of Space by David Lasser
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Space is Open for Business by Robert Jacobson
America’s New Destiny in Space by Glenn Reynolds
Not Necessarily Rocket Science by Kellie Gerardi
Foundation (pt 1-3) by Isaac Asimov
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
1984 by George Orwell
–Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
–Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
–Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
–The Origins of Money by Carl Menger
–The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
–The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
–Poor Charlie’s Almanac by Charles Munger
–The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
–The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufmann
–The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
–Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
–Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein
–The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish
–Principles by Ray Dalio
–Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
–Algorithms to Live By: by Brian Christian
–Superforecasting: by Philip Tetlock
–The Model Thinker by Scott Page
–Zero to One by Peter Thiel
–The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
–Build by Tony Fadell
–Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
–Small Business Management by Longenecker/Moore
–Great Dialogues of Plato by Plato
–Plato: Complete Works by Plato
–Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
–Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes
–Sapiens by Yuval Harari
–Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
–The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
–Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
–The Thinker’s Guide to Socratic Questioning by Richard Paul
–The Socratic Method of Psychotherapy by James Overholser
–How to Make Money in Stocks by William O’Neil
–Principles of Finance with Excel by Simon Benninga
–The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike Jr.
–Bull! by Maggie Mahar
–Adaptive Markets by Andrew W. Lo
–Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham
–The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
–Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher
–Margin of Safety by Seth A. Klarman
–The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
–When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
–Value Investing by Bruce C. Greenwald
–What Is Value Investing? by Lawrence A. Cunningham
–Getting Started in Value Investing by Charles S. Mizrahi
–Stress Test by Timothy F. Geithner
–Analysis of Financial Statements by Leopold Bernstein
–Limping on Water by Philip Beuth
–Money Masters of Our Time by John Train
–The Clash of the Cultures by John C. Bogle
–The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin
–The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom
–Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
–Influence by Robert Cialdini
–Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark
–How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
–Noise by Daniel Kahneman
–Getting to Yes – Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
–How to Decide by Annie Duke
–Judgment in Managerial Decision Making by Max H. Bazerman
–Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
–Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
–Essays In Persuasion (1932) by John Maynard Keynes
–Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
–Atomic Habits by James Clear
–Think Again by Adam Grant
–The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
–Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
–Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
–Math for Machine Learning by Richard Han
