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Library

library

economics and political economy

The Economics and Politics of Race
Thomas Sowell
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Sovereign Individual
Davidson and Rees-Mogg
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
The Dictator's Handbook
Bueno de Mesquita and Smith

capital and building

Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Principles
Ray Dalio
Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
10x Is Easier Than 2x
Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
Estée: A Success Story
Estée Lauder
The Art of the Deal
Donald Trump
Think Big and Kick Ass
Donald Trump
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
eBoys
Randall Stross
Nail It Then Scale It
Furr and Ahlstrom

systems and organisations

The Goal
Eliyahu Goldratt
Scale
Geoffrey West
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Never Eat Alone
Keith Ferrazzi

philosophy

Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Maxims
François de La Rochefoucauld
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Lives of the Stoics
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
The Tao of Seneca
Seneca, edited by Tim Ferriss

mind and the future self

Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
The Power of Awareness
Neville Goddard
Be Your Future Self Now
Benjamin Hardy
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Joseph Murphy
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
Joe Dispenza
Personality Isn't Permanent
Benjamin Hardy

consciousness and ideas

The Self-Aware Universe
Amit Goswami
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
The Power of Kabbalah
Yehuda Berg

power, story, and taste

The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Story
Robert McKee
Our Kind of People
Lawrence Otis Graham

read for the pleasure of it

Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert

podcasts

Pilot Wave
Afsheen Afshar, Arik Oganesian, Cooper
Token Engineering
Neurometric
All-In
Chamath, Jason, Sacks, Friedberg
The Twenty Minute VC
Harry Stebbings
The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
How I Invest
David Weisburd
TBPN
John Coogan and Jordi Hays
AI in NYC
AI in NYC

newsletters

Neurometric
neurometric.substack.com
Pilot Wave AI
pilotwaveai.substack.com
Investing in AI
Rob May

I've always believed that if you stick to a thought and carefully avoid distraction along the way, you can fulfill a dream.

Estée Lauder  ·  Estée: A Success Story, 1985

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