Books

History

• Sapiens - Yuval Harari
• Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
• The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

Philosophy

• The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• The Prince - Machiavelli
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• Sovereign Individual - James Davidson
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Rene Girard
• Mimetic Theory - Rene Girard
• The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant
• The Gay Science - Nietzsche
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter

Physics

• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
• The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
• Reality is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli
• Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution - Carlo Rovelli
• Anaximander and the Birth of Science - Carlo Rovelli
• Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman
• The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra
• The Left Hand of the Electron - Isaac Asimov
• Thinking Physics - Lewis Carroll Epstein

Science Fiction

• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu

Biotechnology / Longevity

• A Thousand Brains - Jeff Hawkins
• The Extended Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To - David Sinclair, PhD
• Longevity Simplified - Dr. Howard Luks
• Outlive - Dr. Peter Attia

Artificial Intelligence

• Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
• Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
• The Age of AI - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher

Psychology / Social Science

• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert Cialdini
• Start with No - Jim Camp
• Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher, William Ury
• Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
• The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
• The Master and His Emissary - Iain McGilchrist
• The Matter With Things - Iain McGilchrist

Finance / Economics / Entrepreneurship

• Zero to One - Peter Thiel
• Hedge Fund Market Wizards - Jack Schwager
• Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
• The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

Media / Marketing / Advertising

• Understanding Media - Marshall Mcluhan
• The Medium is the Massage - Marshall Mcluhan
• Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy
• Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug
• Positioning - Al Ries, Jack Trout
• The Sense of Style - Steven Pinker

Security / Privacy

• Security Engineering - Ross Anderson
• Building Secure and Reliable Systems - Google
• Extreme Privacy - Michael Bazzell

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