Log of books that I have read and my ratings. The * indicates my favorites if you are looking for recommendations.
2020
- The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth (5/5)
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (3/5)
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark (4/5)
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos (5/5)*
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh (5/5)
- Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair (4/5)
- The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette (3/5)
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman (5/5)
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (5/5)
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (5/5)*
2019
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer (4/5)
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (4/5)
- Get Together: How to build a community with your people by Bailey Richardson, Kai Elmer Sotto, Kevin Huynh (4/5)
- A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg (5/5)
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin (5/5)*
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz (4/5)
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman (4/5)
- The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality by Blake J. Harris (4/5)
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (4/5)
- The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport (5/5)
- What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker (4/5)
- Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh (5/5)*
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner (4/5)
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (5/5)
- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government–Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy (5/5)
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor (5/5)
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond (4/5)
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (4/5)
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner (5/5)*
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger (4/5)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (4/5)
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (4/5)
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (4/5)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (4/5)
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope (5/5)
- Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr., Christopher Vaughan (4/5)
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (5/5)
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough (5/5)*
- Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas (3/5)
- Educated by Tara Westover (5/5)*
- Who is Michael Ovitz by Michael Ovitz (4/5)
