Far too often I'm asked for a book recommendation. Below are a small sample size of books that have influenced my thinking — personally and professionally.
Currently Reading
- The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
- Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler - Free to read on Project Gutenberg
Must Reads
Personal Development
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, PhD
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Never Finished by David Goggins
- Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
- Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by 50 Cent
- The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
Psychology
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr. Robert Cialdini
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Dr. Daniel Kahneman
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Philosophy
- Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, & Phaedo) by Plato
- The Republic by Plato
- The Symposium by Plato
- Timaeus and Critas by Plato
- Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; Translated by Gregory Hays
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- On The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Courage to Create by Rollo May
Power
- 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
- Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
Politics
- Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski
- Politics by Plato
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Products
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Change by Design by Tim Brown
People
- A Promised Land, an autobiography by Barack Obama
- Titan, a biography about John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
- American Prometheus, a biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
- The Art and Science of Respect an autobiography by James Prince
Business
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- This Is Marketing by Seth Godin
- The Six Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- The Lean Startup by Eric Reis
- $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Esoteric
- The Kybalion by Hermes Trismegistus; Written by The Three Initiates
- The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
- The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
On My Radar
Non-Fiction
- 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, et al
- High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil
- The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert
Fiction
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Nazi Billionaires by David de Jong