Emerson wrote: "I do not remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten. Even so, they have made me." This page is a personal reminder of all the books that have shaped me.

2024:

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The Korean War
by
Bruce Cummings
(
Nov
)
•
Basic Economics
by
Thomas Sowell
(
Nov
)
•
The Network State
by
Balaji Srinivasan
(
Oct
)
•
Korea Old and New
by
Carter Eckert
(
Oct
)
•
Amp It Up
by
Frank Slootman
(
Sep
)
•
The Burnout Society
by
Byung Chul Han
(
Aug
)
•
The Evolution of Desire
by
David Buss
(
Aug
)
•
The Founders
by
Jimmy Soni
(
Jul
)
•
Future Shock
by
Alvin Toffler
(
Jul
)
•
Get Better At Anything
by
Scott H. Young
(
Jun
)
•
Winning Long-Term Games
by
Luca Dellanna
(
Jun
)
•
Pachinko
by
Min Jin Lee
(
Jun
)
•
So Good They Can't Ignore You
by
Cal Newport
(
May
)
•
The Inner Game of Tennis
by
Timothy Gallwey
(
May
)
•
The Status Game
by
Will Storr
(
May
)
•
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
by
Sigmund Freud
(
Apr
)
•
The Psychology of Money
by
Morgan Housel
(
Apr
)
•
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
by
Will Durant
(
Mar
)
•
The Power Law
by
Sebastian Mallaby
(
Mar
)
•
The Denial of Death
by
Ernest Becker
(
Mar
)
•
Learn to Love Reading
by
Alex Wieckowski
(
Feb
)
•
Same As Ever
by
Morgan Housel
(
Feb
)
•
My Life in Advertising
by
Claude Hopkins
(
Feb
)
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by
Al Ries & Jack Trout
(
Jan
)
•
Crossing the Chasm
by
Geoffrey Moore
(
Jan
)
•
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
by
Chris Anderson
(
Jan
)
•
The Anthology of Balaji
by
Eric Jorgenson
(
Jan
)

2023:

•
All Marketers are Liars
by
Seth Godin
(
Dec
)
•
Confessions of an Advertising Man
by
David Ogilvy
(
Dec
)
•
Made to Stick
by
Chip and Dan Heath
(
Dec
)
•
Positioning
by
Al Ries and Jack Trout
(
Nov
)
•
Scientific Advertising
by
Claude C. Hopkins
(
Nov
)
•
The Long Tail
by
Chris Anderson
(
Nov
)
•
Alchemy
by
Rory Sutherland
(
Oct
)
•
Ogilvy on Advertising
by
David Ogilvy
(
Oct
)
•
This is Marketing
by
Seth Godin
(
Sep
)
•
The Hero with A Thousand Faces
by
Joseph Campbell
(
Sep
)
•
Richer, Wiser, Happier
by
William Green
(
Aug
)
•
Entangled Life
by
Merlin Sheldrake
(
Jul
)
•
Ergodicity
by
Luca Dellanna
(
Jul
)
•
Escape From Freedom
by
Erich Fromm
(
Jul
)
•
The Coddling of the American Mind
by
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
(
Jul
)
•
Give and Take
by
Adam Grant
(
Jun
)
•
The Sovereign Individual
by
James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
(
Jun
)
•
Excellent Advice for Living
by
Kevin Kelly
(
May
)
•
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by
Mark Manson
(
May
)
•
Debt: The First 5000 Years
by
David Graeber
(
May
)
•
The Death of Money
by
James Rickards
(
Apr
)
•
The Book Of Satoshi
by
Phil Champagne
(
Apr
)
•
Currency Wars
by
James Rickards
(
Mar
)
•
Layered Money
by
Nik Bhatia
(
Mar
)
•
Fed Up
by
Danielle DiMartino Booth
(
Feb
)
•
The Price of Time
by
Edward Chancellor
(
Feb
)
•
The History of Money
by
Jack Weatherford
(
Jan
)
•
The Price of Tomorrow
by
Jeff Booth
(
Jan
)
•
Understanding Money Mechanics
by
Robert P. Murphy
(
Jan
)
•
Pragmatic Capitalism
by
Cullen Roche
(
Jan
)

2022:

•
The Great Depression: A Diary
by
Benjamin Roth
(
Dec
)
•
The Fiat Standard
by
Saifedean Ammous
(
Dec
)
•
The Ascent of Money
by
Niall Ferguson
(
Dec
)
•
The Fourth Turning
by
Neil Howe and William Strauss
(
Nov
)
•
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
by
Richard Feynman
(
Nov
)
•
The Immortality Key
by
Brian C. Muraresku
(
Oct
)
•
The Systems Bible
by
John Gall
(
Oct
)
•
The Power of Story
by
Jim Loehr
(
Sep
)
•
Meditations
by
Marcus Aurelius (via Robert Hays)
(
Sep
)
•
Wild Problems
by
Russ Roberts
(
Sep
)
•
What It Takes
by
Stephen A. Schwarzman
(
Aug
)
•
The Pathless Path
by
Paul Millerd
(
Jul
)
•
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by
Neil Postman
(
Jul
)
•
Man's Search for Meaning
by
Viktor Frankl
(
Jun
)