July 12, 2017

Books

This page contains a list of everything I’ve read over the past few years, categorized into the books I’ve loved, the ones I thought were okay, and finally, the ones I thought were meh.

Books I Loved

Rework

By Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson and Mike Chamberlain

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

By Mark Manson

Ego Is the Enemy

By Ryan Holiday

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

By Ashlee Vance

Remote: Office Not Required

By Jason Fried

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

By Tony Hsieh

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups

By Randall Stross

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal</span>

By Nick Bilton

Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine

By Antonio Garcia Martinez

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble</span>

By Dan Lyons

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us</span>

By Scott Brick

Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

By Ryan Holiday

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike</span>

By Phil Knight

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker

By Kevin Mitnick

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works, and How It’s Transforming the American Economy

By Charles Fishman

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Audiobook

By Walter Isaacson

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

By Parmy Olson

Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

By Nathaniel Popper

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

By Kathe Mazur

The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

By Scott Berkun

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

By Kevin Mitnick

Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

By Jacquie McNish

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

By Eric Ries

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

By Scott Rosenberg

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell

Books I Thought Were Okay

These are the list of books I still enjoyed reading, but aren’t the kind of books I would gift to someone or suggest when asked for recommendations.

Modern Romance: An Investigation, by Aziz Ansari
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, by Paul Allen
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, by Brent Schlender
I Will Teach You to Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi
I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, by Douglas Edwards
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance, by Tony Schwartz
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World, by Brad Stone
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul, by Howard Schultz
The Industries of the Future, by Alec Ross
The Compound Effect, by Darren Hardy
How to Land an A330 Airbus: And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man, by James May
Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World’s Most Interesting Facts, by Dan Lewis
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, by Matt Blumberg
The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company, by David A. Price
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, by Leander Kahney
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself, by David McRaney
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, by Nir Eyal
Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day, by Todd Henry
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars, by Paul Ingrassia
Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle, by Andrea Hiott
Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives, by Dean Buonomano
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, by Charles Wheelan
Driven: Inside BMW, the Most Admired Car Company in the World, by David Kiley
Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham
Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, by Carmine Gallo
Not a Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters, by Brian Donovan
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t, by Jim Collins
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind, by Biz Stone
Notes to a Software Team Leader: Growing Self Organizing Teams, by Roy Osherove
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives, by Eric Schmidt
The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good, by by David J. Linden
The Top Gear Story, by Martin Roach
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman, by Tim Ferriss
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eaglema
James May’s 20th Century, by James May
Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works, by Adam Lashinsk
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, by Mary Roach
Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future – and Locked Us In, by Brian Chen
The Man in the White Suit: The Stig, Le Mans, The Fast Lane and Me, by Ben Collins
The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation, by Jay Elliot
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell

Books I Thought Were Meh

Finally, the list of books I struggled to complete, either because I’m not interested in the genre or I don’t like the content.

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