--- title: About Me - Book and Podcast List --- # Books, PodCasts, & Newsletters This page is a compilation of recommendations, as well as content that I've read or subscribed to myself.  Let me know if you have any additions! ---   ## Reading List ### General Life & Business: - *Ride of a Lifetime* - Bob Iger - *The Comfort Crisis* - Michael Easter - *Shoedog* - Phil Knight - *Mindset: The New Psychology of Success* - Carol Dweck - *Atomic Habits *- James Clear - *The Blue Zones* - Nat Geo Fellow Dan Buettner - *Give and Take *- Adam Grant - *Wake Up Grateful - *Kristi Nelson - *Predictably Irrational, Revised: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions* - Dan Ariely - *Principles: Life and Work *- Ray Dalio - *The Road to Character* - David Brooks - *The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People* -  Stephen Covey - *The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion* - Jonathan Haidt - *How to Win Friends and Influence People* - Dale Carnegie - *What Great Brands Do* - Denise Lee Yohn - *Factfulness*  - Hans Rosling - *Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution* - Paul Hawken - *How are we going to explain this? Our Future on a Hot Earth* - Jelmer Mommers - *This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate* - Naomi Klein - *The Carbon Almanac - *collective - *All Marketers Are Liars, Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All* | *Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?* | *Purple Cow* - Seth Godin - *Outliers: The Story of Success* | ***The Tipping Point* |* Talking to Strangers* - Malcolm Gladwell** - ***Designing Your Life***** **- Bill Burnett - *Relational Intelligence *- Dharius Daniels - *Am I Overthinking This* - Michelle Rial  - *Tiny Beautiful Things* - Cheryl Strayed - ***Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World* - David J. Epstein ** - *No Rules Rules *- Reed Hastings - After the Rain - Alexandra Elle - *Never Eat Alone, Expanded: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time* - Keith Ferrazzi - *Humans *- Brandon Stanton - *The First 90 Days* - Michael Watkins - *The Art of War *- Sun Tzu - *Influence* - Robert Cialdini - *High Output Management* - Andrew Grove - *The Better Angels of Our Nature* - Steven Pinkner - *You Negotiate Like a Girl: Reflections on a Career in the NFL* - Michael Freeman  - *Why* *We Age and Why We Don't Have To *- David A. Sinclair (BH) - *Unleashed* - Frances Frei  - *The Hard Thing About Hard Things* |*What You Do Is Who You Are *- Ben Horowitz  - *Trillion Dollar Coach *- Eric Schmidt  - * Born a Crime* - Trevor Noah - *Steve Jobs* - Walter Isaacson - *The Great CEO Within* - Matt Mochary - *Mating in Captivity* - Esther Perel - *Radical Candor *- Kim Scott - *Leadership in Turbulent Times - * Doris Kearns Goodwin - *Education of an Idealist* - Samantha Power  - *Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion* - Gregory Boyle - *The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way *- Amanda Ripley - *Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life* - John Bogle - *The Almanack of Naval Ravikant* - Eric Jorgenson - *Essentialism* - Greg McKeown ### Entrepreneurship: - *Zero to One *- Peter Thiel - *The Lean Startup * - Eric Ries - *Venture Deals 2nd Edition* - Brad Feld - *Entrepreneurs Guide to Business Law* - Constance Bagley  - *The Founder's Dilemmas *- Noam Wasserman  - *The $100 Startup* - Chris Guillebeau  - *The MouseDriver Chronicles* - John Lusk - * Mountains Beyond Mountains* - Tracy Kidder - *The Innovator's Dilemma* - Clayton Christensen - Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore - *The Mythical Man Month - *Frederick Brooks Jr. - *My Life in Advertising - *Claude Hopkins - *The Messy Middle - *Scott Belsky - *Bad Blood* - John Carreyrou ### Travel: - *Destinations of a Lifetime: 225 of the World's Most Amazing Places** - *National Geographic - *Our America in Photographs* - Ken Burns - *36 Hours* - New York Times series - *The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business* - Erin Meyer - *The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World* - Lonely Planet - *Epic Runs of the World: explore the world's most thrilling running routes and trails* - Lonely Planet - *Accidentally Wes Anderson* - Wally Koval ### History: - *The Splendid & The Vile* - Erik Larson (BH) - *Sapiens, A Brief History of Human Kind *- Yuval Noah Harari - *Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption* - Laura Hillenbrand - *Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz *- Rena Kornreich Gelissen - *All But My Life: A Memoir* (Phx) - Gerda Weissmann Klein - *Alicia: My Story *- Alicia Appleman-Jurman - *Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz* - Olga Lengyel  - *Man's Search for Meaning* - Viktor Frankl - *The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game* - Edward Achorn - *From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 * - Lee Kuan Yew - *Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania* - Erik Larson - *Human Kind *- Rutger Bregman - *Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq* - Zlata Filipovic - *King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa* - Adam Hochschild - *Parting the Waters* - Taylor Branch (JD) - *Devotion* - Adam Makos - *Empire of Pain *- Patrick Radden Keefe ### Finance & Investing: - *The Richest Man in Babylon* - George S. Clason - a collection of finance parables that go back 8000 years and still apply today. - *The Millionaire Next Door* - Thomas J. Stanley - a look into the actual habits of millionaires (hint: they're really thoughtful with their spending). - *The Simple Path to Wealth *- JL Collins - an approachable letter written by a father for his daughter so she can know enough about finances to not have to worry about it. - *The Little Book of Common Sense Investing*  - Jack Bogle - written by the founder of Vanguard, he created the first index funds and is largely credited with democratizing investments for the middle class.  - *A Random Walk Down Wall Street *- Richard Burton Malkiel - builds upon Bogle and Warren Buffett's financial principles by going in-depth into what makes up an ideal portfolio mix for most people. - *Options Trading* - Sheldon Natenberg  - *The Compound Effect* - Darren Hardy - ***Think & Grow Rich*** -  Napoleon Hill  - *The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World* - Jacqueline Novogratz - *The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness* - Eric Jorgenson  ### Other: - *10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world* -  Elif Shafak - *The Paper Menagerie* - Ken Liu - *Four Fish* - Paul Greenberg - *When Breath Becomes Air *- Paul Kalanithi (KBu) - *The Fosters Market Cookbook* - Sara Foster (KBo) - ***Lights Out* - Ted Koppel** - *A Confederacy of Dunces* - John Kennedy Toole (JD) - *Front Desk* - Kelly Yang  (young adult) - *The Undoing Project *- Michael Lewis - *The Premonition* - Michael Lewis - *Billion Dollar Whale* -  Bradley Hope - *Born to Run *- Chris McDougall - *Astrophysics for People in a Hurry* - Neil deGrasse Tyson - HBR's 10 Must Reads ## Podcasts & Newsletters ### Podcasts: - Acquired: Every Company Has a Story [Business] - Huberman Lab [Science] - The Moth [Personal Stories] - Unlocking Us [Relationships] - All-In [Business / Tech] - On Purpose with Jay Shetty [Self-help] - The Tim Ferriss Show [Life Hacks / Tools] - Where Should We Begin [Relationships] - How I Built This [Careers / Business] - Unlock Your Best Self [Reinvention/Health] - The Daily [News] - WorkLife [Leadership/Life] - Hidden Brain [Science / Documentary] - The Happiness Lab [Society] - Overheard at National Geographic [Science] - How to Save a Planet [Society / Science] - Do Go On [History / Comedy] - 99% Invisible [Design / Architecture] - Stuff You Should Know [Educational / History] - Revisionist History [Society] - Radiolab [Documentary] - Planet Money [Finance / Business] - Jacko Podcast [History / Business] - The Longest Shortest Time [Parenting] - Pivot [Tech] - In the Shadows of Utopia [History] - Heist [True Crime] - Ain’t that Swell [Sports / Hobbies] - Good Inside [Parenting] - Grit [Business] - Seven Deadly Sins [Society & Culture] - My First Million [Marketing / Business] - The Journal [Business] - Ted Radio Hour [Education] - Land of Giants [Tech] - Business Wars [History] - 30 for 30 [Sports] - Living Planet [Science] - Reply All [Society - The Knowledge Project [Self-help / Business] ### Newsletters: - The Hustle - National Geographic - Quartz Daily Brief - HBR Management Tip of the Day - This Week in Startups - Lenny's Newsletter - Sponstayneous - Not Boring - Briefings from Goldman Sachs - 3-2-1 by James Clear - Ali Rohde Jobs - First Round Review - HBR Ascend - Benedict's Newsletter - Accelerated - Tim Laman Studio - SSC Venture Notes - Quartz Weekly Obsession - Recreation.gov Adventure Awaits   ## Interested in checking out more of my work? 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