Bookshelf

Log of books that I have read and my ratings.

2020

• How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time by Matt Ridley (8/10)
• The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman (6/10)
• Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis by Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova (9/10)
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford (8/10)
• One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock (7/10)
• Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan (9/10)
• Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (10/10)
• Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff (8/10)
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman (6/10)
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (9/10)
• No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier (10/10)
• The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver (6/10)
• The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith (9/10)
• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal (10/10)
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (9/10)
• This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay (10/10)
• The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum by Camila Russo (9/10)
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (9/10)
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (8/10)
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
• Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan (10/10)
• The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (7/10)
• How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt (9/10)
• Kings of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street by Jeff John Roberts (8/10)
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (8/10)
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (7/10)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace (8/10)
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss (8/10)
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (8/10)
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Pérez (8/10)
• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (8/10)
• Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun by Kevin C. Pyle, Scott Cunningham (7/10)
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (4/10)
• Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich (7/10)
• Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis (8/10)
• The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth (9/10)
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (6/10)
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark (8/10)
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos (10/10)
• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh (10/10)
• Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair (9/10)
• The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette (6/10)
• The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman (9/10)
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (9/10)
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (10/10)

2019

• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer (7/10)
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (8/10)
• Get Together: How to build a community with your people by Bailey Richardson, Kai Elmer Sotto, Kevin Huynh (8/10)
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg (9/10)
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin (10/10)
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz (8/10)
• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman (9/10)
• The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality by Blake J. Harris (7/10)
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (8/10)
• The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport (9/10)
• What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker (8/10)
• Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh (10/10)
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner (7/10)
• “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (9/10)
• Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government–Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy (9/10)
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor (9/10)
• The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond (7/10)
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (7/10)
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner (10/10)
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger (7/10)
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (8/10)
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (8/10)
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (8/10)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (7/10)
• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope (9/10)
• Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr., Christopher Vaughan (7/10)
• The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (9/10)
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough (10/10)
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas (5/10)
• Educated by Tara Westover (10/10)
• Who is Michael Ovitz by Michael Ovitz (8/10)