Bookshelf
Reading is my form of forced meditation. To nurture a lifelong sense of curiosity, I employ a multi-disciplinary approach to select and read a wide range of books. Below are my book summaries.
Book Summaries
The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
November 27, 2025The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran
October 30, 2025Good Energy by Casey Means
September 30, 2025Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
August 30, 2025A Splendid Exchange by William J. Bernstein
April 29, 2025Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
December 07, 2024Factfulness by Hans Rosling
October 31, 2024Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
October 09, 2024The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
July 24, 2024Competing In The Age Of AI by Marco Iansiti
July 15, 2024The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
June 22, 2024The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield
June 15, 2024Open by Andre Agassi
June 01, 2024Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
May 27, 2024Shape Up by Ryan Singer, Jason Fried
March 10, 2024Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen
March 05, 2024Measure What Matters by John Doerr
February 29, 2024A Man For All Markets by Edward O. Thorp
January 28, 2024Algorithms To Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
January 27, 2024A Little History Of The World by E.H. Gombrich
January 05, 2024Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
January 01, 2024The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
January 01, 2024One from Many by Dee Hock
November 01, 2023Thinking In Systems by Donella H. Meadows
October 31, 2023High Output Management by Andrew S Grove
September 19, 2023Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
August 25, 2023Beyond The Prototype by Douglas Ferguson
July 03, 2023Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres
June 27, 2023Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
June 15, 2023The Making Of A Manager by Julie Zhuo
May 26, 2023Charlie Munger by Tren Griffin
May 24, 2023Range by David Epstein
May 15, 2023Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 02, 2023Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth
March 10, 2023The Wisdom Of Finance by Mihir Desai
February 24, 2023The Little Book That Builds Wealth by Pat Dorsey
February 08, 2023The Outsiders by William N. Thorndlike, Jr.
January 25, 2023Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
November 14, 2022On Writing by Stephen King
November 11, 2022Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
November 10, 2022On Writing Well by William Zinsser
November 07, 2022Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
November 05, 2022The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
November 01, 2022Boyd by Robert Coram
October 25, 2022Elements Of Design by Gail Greet Hannah
October 20, 2022Geometry Of Design by Kimberly Elam
October 15, 2022Design Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
October 07, 2022Visual Grammar by Christian Leborg
October 05, 2022Interaction Of Color by Josef Albers
October 05, 2022The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
October 03, 2022Design As Art by Bruno Munari
September 28, 2022As One Is by Jiddu Krishnamurti
September 20, 2022Paul Rand | A Designer's Art by Paul Rand
August 25, 2022Dieter Rams by Klaus Klemp
August 20, 2022The Art Of Doing Science And Engineering by Richard W Hamming
August 07, 2022Endurance by Alfred Lansing
August 06, 2022Tao Te Ching by Stephen Mitchell
July 24, 2022Build by Tony Fadell
July 16, 2022The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
July 15, 2022Walking by Henry David Thoreau
June 22, 2022The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
June 19, 2022The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
June 17, 2022The Little Book Of Common Sense Investing by John C Bogle
May 30, 2022Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
May 28, 2022The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
March 31, 2022Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
March 12, 2022Connect by Carole Robin Ph.D.
January 31, 2022Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe & Patty Civalleri
December 28, 2021Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
December 15, 2021Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter D Kaufman
December 04, 2021Play Bigger by Al Ramadan
October 27, 2021A Brief History Of Earth by Andrew H. Knoll
September 10, 2021Finite And Infinite Games by James Carse
September 03, 2021The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
July 24, 2021Beyond Coffee by James Beshara
July 12, 20217 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
July 06, 2021The Water Dancer | A Novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates
June 15, 2021The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
April 12, 2021A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking
February 14, 2021Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
December 24, 2020Leadership In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
December 05, 2020How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M. Christensen
November 12, 2020Siddhartha Novel by Hermann Hesse
October 20, 2020The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert
October 12, 2020The Great Crash 1929 by John Galbraith
September 20, 2020Living With A SEAL by Jesse Itlzer
August 28, 2020The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
August 22, 2020Super Thinking by Gabriel Weinberg
July 10, 2020Being Logical by Dennis Q. McInerny
July 09, 2020Cracking The PM Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
July 02, 2020Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
July 02, 2020Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
June 16, 2020The Alchemist by Pablo Coelho
May 12, 2020How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
May 03, 2020Creativity Selection by Ken Kocienda
April 03, 2020Let My People Go Surfing Inc by Yvon Chouinard
March 05, 2020Get Together by Bailey Richardson
February 01, 2020Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
July 28, 2019Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
September 23, 2018Seven Brief Lessons Of Physics by Carlo Rovelli
September 23, 2018Shoedog by Phil Knight
September 04, 2018Deep Work by Cal Newport
June 17, 2018Other Reads
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
The Last Lecture
When Breath Becomes Air
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Grit
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home
Man's Search for Meaning
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Dark Matter
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
How Google Works
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Great Gatsby
The Intelligent Investor
The Creator's Code The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
Start Something That Matters
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Steve Jobs
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
The Martian