Summaries
(Last updated: 6 April 2024)
Notes on some of the books I have read. It is not exhaustive; just a collection of my favourite excerpts. You can follow me on GoodReads to get book recommendations: Goodreads Profile.
- Anansi's Gold - Yepoka Yeebo
- Just Enough Design - Taku Satoh
- Traffic - Ben Smith
- Same as Ever - Morgan Housel
- Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
- The Kremlin School of Negotiation - Igor Ryzov
- Hardball - Chris Matthews
- Gambler - Billy Walters
- Shut Up and Run - Robin Arzón
- Why I Left Goldman Sachs - Greg Smith
- Serve to Win - Novak Djokovic
- Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
- Wonder Boy - Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
- The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King - Michael Craig
- King Icahn - Mark Stevens
- On the Firing Line - Gil Amelio
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party - Nick Gray
- Captivate - Vanessa Van Edwards
- From Strength to Strength - Arthur C. Brooks
- Hygge Home - Thomas Nielson
- The Adventures of Herbie Cohen - Rich Cohen
- A Master's Secret Whispers - Kapil Gupta
- Direct Truth - Kapil Gupta
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard P. Rumelt
- Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
- The 3-Minute Rule - Brant Pinvidic
- 7 Rules of Power - Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Words Like Loaded Pistols - Sam Leith
- Amp It Up - Frank Slootman
- Working Backwards - Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
- Designing Your Work Life - Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
- The Elephant in the Brain - Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
- The Art of Noticing - Rob Walker
- Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
- Built to Sell - John Warrillow
- The Halo Effect - Philip M. Rosenzweig
- The Pathless Path - Paul Millerd
- After Steve - Tripp Mickle
- $100M Offers - Alex Hormozi
- Richer, Wiser, Happier - William Green
- eBoys - Randall E. Stross
- Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It - Daniel Martin Klein
- The Power Law - Sebastian Mallaby
- The Millionaire Fastlane - DeMarco MJ
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur - Sahil Lavingia
- The Internet of Money - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Give and Take - Adam M. Grant
- The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene
- Street Photography - Eric Kim
- Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- I Hate Running and You Can Too - Brendan Leonard
- Breath - James Nestor
- Wanting - Luke Burgis
- Digital Gold - Nathaniel Popper
- The Wim Hof Method - Wim Hof
- You're Not Listening - Kate Murphy
- The Courage to be Happy - Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
- Silos, Politics and Turf Wars - Patrick Lencioni
- Am I Being Too Subtle? - Sam Zell
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years - Donald Miller
- Amazon Unbound - Brad Stone
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
- Storyworthy - Matthew Dicks
- Your Next Five Moves - Patrick Bet-David
- The Key to Happiness - Meik Wiking
- The Biggest Bluff - Maria Konnikova
- Stillness Is the Key - Ryan Holiday
- The Snowball - Alice Schroeder
- Things a Little Bird Told Me - Biz Stone
- Die with Zero - Bill Perkins
- The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss
- The Art of Making Memories - Meik Wiking
- Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- An Elegant Puzzle - William Larson
- Atomic habits - James Clear
- Invent and Wander - Walter Isaacson
- The Unfair Advantage - Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba
- The 4 Hour Body - Tim Ferriss
- Stealing the Corner Office - Brendan Reid
- The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
- How to Get Rich - Felix Dennis
- What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars - Jim Paul
- Inspired - Marty Cagan
- Atmamun - Kapil Gupta
- The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh
- Crush It - Gary Vaynerchuk
- How I Invest My Money - Joshua Brown and Brian Portnoy
- Workplace Poker - Dan Rust
- Moral Mazes - Robert Jackall
- How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital - Nathan Latka
- The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
- Massive Profit at the Micros - Blackrain79
- The 50th Law - Robert Greene
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- 7 Powers - Hamilton Wright Helmer
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - Carmine Gallo
- Reboot - Jerry Colonna
- The Second Mountain - David Brooks
- Discipline Equals Freedom - Jocko Willink
- Start at the End - Matt Wallaert
- Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Working - Robert A. Caro
- Grinding It Out - Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson
- The Book on Investing In Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down - Brandon Turner
- Financial Intelligence - Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case
- Competing Against Luck - Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David Duncan
- Escaping the Build Trap - Melissa Perri
- From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom - Manoj Arora
- Finite and Infinite Games - James P. Carse
- Dreyer's English - Benjamin Dreyer
- Understanding Michael Porter - Joan Magretta
- Decisive - Chip Heath, Dan Heath
- Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Superbosses - Sydney Finkelstein
- 30 Lessons for Living - Karl Pillemer
- The Third Door - Alex Banayan
- Wisdom at Work - Chip Conley
- Obviously Awesome - April Dunford
- Win Bigly - Scott Adams
- National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide to Travel Photography - Scott Stuckey
- The Theory of Poker - David Sklansky
- Doyle Brunson's Super System - Doyle Brunson
- Essential Poker Math - Alton Hardin
- Play Poker Like the Pros - Phil Hellmuth
- Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
- The Mental Game of Poker - Barry Carter, Jared Tendler
- That Will Never Work - Marc Randolph
- Tao of Charlie Munger - David Clark
- Simplify - Joshua Becker
- Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
- Inside Apple - Adam Lashinsky
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
- The Essays of Warren Buffett - Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett
- On Writing Well - William Zinsser
- Leading - Alex Ferguson, Michael Moritz
- Little Rice - Clay Shirky
- The Fixer - Bradley Tusk
- Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
- Built for Growth - Chris Kuenne, John Danner
- More Than You Know - Michael J. Mauboussin
- Smarter Faster Better - Charles Duhigg
- The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
- The Coaching Habit - Michael Bungay Stanier
- Radical Candor - Kim Scott
- Always Day One - Alex Kantrowitz
- The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger
- What It Takes - Stephen A. Schwarzman
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
- Becoming Steve Jobs - Brent Schlender
- The Airbnb Story - Leigh Gallagher
- The Start-Up of You - Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha
- Do You Talk Funny? - David Nihill
- The Secrets of Consulting - Gerald M. Weinberg
- Difference - Bernadette Jiw
- The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking - Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
- Never Split the Difference - Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz
- Humble Inquiry - Edgar H. Schein
- Hello, My Name Is Awesome - Alexandra Watkins
- Catalyst - Chandramouli Venkatesan
- Nonviolent Communication - Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Crucial Conversations - Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- Negotiating the Impossible - Deepak Malhotra
- Powerful - Patty McCord
- The Making of a Manager - Julie Zhuo
- Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
- The CEO Next Door - Elena L. Botelho, Kim Powell, Tahl Raz
- Making Things Happen - Scott Berkun
- The Charisma Myth - Olivia Fox Cabane
- Angel - Jason Calacanis
- Corporate Confidential - Cynthia Shapiro
- The McKinsey Edge - Shu Hattori
- McKinsey Mind - Ethan M. Rasiel, Paul N. Friga
- Emotional Design - Donald A. Norman
- Designing for Emotion - Aarron Walter
- The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky
- Blitzscaling - Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
- Only the Paranoid Survive - Andrew S. Grove
- Lost and Founder - Rand Fishkin
- Who Is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz
- Jony Ive - Leander Kahney
- Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
- Company of One - Paul Jarvis
- Platform Revolution - G. Parker, M. Van Alstyne, S. Choudary
- Be Our Guest - Walt Disney Company
- The Power of Glamour - Virginia Postrel
- The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street - Burton Malkiel
- The Manager's Path - Camille Fournier
- AI Superpowers - Kai-Fu Lee
- The Dhandho Investor - Mohnish Pabrai
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi
- Let's Talk Money - Monika Halan
- Managing Oneself - Peter Drucker
- Narrative and Numbers - Aswath Damodaran
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius - Joel Greenblatt
- The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them - Peter Mallouk
- Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor - Tren Griffin
- The Little Book That Beats the Market - Joel Greenblatt
- Stock Market Wizards - Jack D. Schwager
- One Up On Wall Street - Peter Lynch
- The Alliance - Reid Hoffman
- Measure What Matters - John Doerr
- Lean Analytics - Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
- The Art of the Good Life - Rolf Dobelli
- What Every Body is Saying - Joe Navarro
- Lean from the Trenches - Henrik Kniberg
- No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings
- Playing to Win - A.G. Lafley
- The McKinsey Engagement - Paul N. Friga
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
- Kochland - Christopher Leonard
- Power - Jeffrey Pfeffer
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith
- Rising to Power - Ron A. Carucci
- The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- No Limits - Mukesh Bansal
- The Mature Optimization Handbook - Carlos Bueno
- Logo Design Love - David Airey
- Insanely Simple - Ken Segall
- Principles - Ray Dalio
- So good they can't ignore you - Cal Newport
- Deepwork - Cal Newport
- The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran