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- Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman | 4.33. Major New York Times bestseller. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011.
- The Innovator's Dilemma. When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Clayton M. Christensen | 4.20. The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, renowned author Clayton M. Christensen.
- Pre-Suasion. A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade. Professor Robert B. Cialdini | 4.22. The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn’t lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.
- Homo Deus. A Brief History of Tomorrow. Yuval Noah Harari | 4.38. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
Oct 28, 2023 · Explore Naval Ravikant's recommended books that shaped his philosophy and success. Dive into his top recommendations @ ReadUpNext.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankindby Yuval Noah Harari A history of the human species. The observations, frameworks, and mental models will have you looking at history and your fellow humans differently. Sapiens is the best book of the last decade I have read. He had decades to write Sapiens. There’s lots of great ideas in there and it’s just full of them, chock full per page. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolvesby Matt Ridley The most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in...
Philosophy & Spirituality
Everything by Jed McKenna. Jed spits raw truth. His style may be off-putting but the dedication to truth is unparalleled. Theory of Everything (The Enlightened Perspective) - Dreamstate Trilogy Jed McKenna’s Notebook Jed Talks #1and #2 Everythingby Kapil Gupta, MD. Kapil recently became a personal advisor and coach to me, and this comes from a person who doesn’t believe in coaches. A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor noise and seek The Truth about life and living Direct Truth: Unc...
Science Fiction
FiccionesbyJorge Luis Borges I love Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine author. His short story collection Ficciones, or Labyrinths, is amazing. Borges is probably still the most powerful author I have read who wasn’t just outright writing philosophy. There was philosophy in there with the sci-fi. Stories of Your Life and Othersby Ted Chiang My current favorite short story, sci-fi short story: probably “Understand” by Ted Chiang. It’s in a collection called Stories of Your Life and Others. “Stor...
Some amazing blogs out there: @KevinSimler — Melting Asphalt, https://meltingasphalt.com/ @farnamstreet — Farnam Street, A Signal in a World Full of Noise, https://fs.blog/ @benthompson — Stratchery, https://stratechery.com/ @baconmeteor — Idle Words, https://idlewords.com/ The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Worksby @FarnamStreet Rules...
Twitter accounts like: 1. @AmuseChimp(my all-time favorite Twitter account) 2. @mmay3r 3. @nntaleb 4. Art DeVany(on Facebook) Genius is here, just unevenly distributed. Must read. (Twitter thread on “intellectual compounding” by @Zaoyang). There are actually some really good graphic novels out there. If you’re open to the cartoony element of it, Tr...
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed.
- Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli. Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Democritus to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to gravitational waves, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity.
- The Third Wave by Steve Case. Steve Case – a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life – was on the leading edge of a revolution in 1985 when he co-founded AOL, the first Internet company to go public and the most successful business of the 1990s.
- Total Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti. Total Freedom includes selections from Krishnamurti’s early works, his ‘Commentaries on Living,’ and his discourses on life, the self, meditation, sex and love.
- Read to learn. A genuine love for reading, Naval believes, is a superpower. “I think that [reading] alone accounts for any material success that I’ve had in my life and any intelligence that I might have,” says Naval.
- Read what you love until you love to read. Naval suggests to start reading easy books, books that you like reading. “Start wherever you are,” Naval says, “and then keep building from there until reading becomes a habit.”
- Read several books at a time. Unlike Bill Gates, who doesn’t read a book he doesn’t intend to finish, Naval doesn’t force himself to finish reading a book.
- Get the gist, then put the book down. Some nonfiction books are just articles expanded and loaded with related materials to fill the pages to create a book.
Oct 1, 2022 · Entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant recommends these seven books for lessons on life, science, philosophy and more.
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