Reading

Self

• A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
• How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen
• School of Life (Practical Philosophy)
• Meaning, Flow and Joy by Martin Seligman
• Steve Jobs - 2005 Stanford Commencement Address and “ Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. “
• Design for the world you want - Willem van Biljon at TEDxCapeTown
• Deep Work by Cal Newport

Decision-making

• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Farnam Street by Shane Parrish

Startups

• Paul Graham Essays
• Zero-to-one by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, also available free in lecture note form .
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
• How to start a startup by Sam Altman (Y Combinator)
• Human Centered Design by IDEO
• Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman et al
• Organisation Physics by Lex Sisney
• Connecting the Dots by John Chambers
• 4-fits framework for growth by Brian Balfour
• The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Technology, Consumers and Culture

• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Wealth, Health and Happiness by Thaler and Sunstein
• The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
• Derek Sivers - Wierd or just different? and How to start a movement
• Benedict Evans
• Noam Chomsky

People

• High-Output Management by Andy Grove
• Mindset by Carol Dweck