5 books that teach you how to think, not what to think:

1) Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2) The Great Mental Models (Volume 1) by Shane Parrish

books to find peace in times of chaos:

1) The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung

'accepting your dark side' 2) Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei

'freedom through minimalism'

5 books that explain how the top 1% actually make their money:

1) The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby

( venture capital | innovation ) 2) The Outsiders by William Thorndike

( capital allocation | strategy )

5 books for high agency people:

1) The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming

'lectures on effective thinking' 2) The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

'solving the impossible'

6 books that could replace a university degree:

1) Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger

( business | decisions ) 2) The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

( history | humanity )

6 books to understand human psychology:

1) Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran 2) Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini

6 of the most anticipated books releasing in 2026:

1) Think Like a Stoic: The Ancient Path to a Life Well Lived by Ken Mogi

( resilience | philosophy ) 2) Secure by Amir Levine

( attachment | love )

6 Books Recommended by Peter Thiel:

1) The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat

"Sets the stakes for the most urgent public debate of the 2020s: How do we get back to the future?" 2) The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

“Every management guide presumes that all great companies follow a formula. But successful startups don’t imitate; they build innovations that can’t be copied.

5 Hidden Gem Business Books:

1) Systemantics by John Gall

'why complex things always fail' 2) The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert

'marketing masterclass written from jail'

6 Books Recommended by Charlie Munger:

1) Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin

"It’s pretty hard to understand everything, but if you can’t understand it, you can always give it to a more intelligent friend." 2) The Outsiders by William Thorndike

“A book that details the extraordinary success of CEOs who took a radically different approach to corporate management.”

9 books to get ahead of 99% of people:

1) The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier

( psychology | investing ) 2) The Status Game by Will Storr

( hierarchy | influence )

5 books to read before 2025 ends:

1) Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

( AI | leverage ) 2) May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases by Alex Edmans

( data | bias )

6 Books Recommended by Nassim Taleb:

1) Scale by Geoffrey West

"This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four. Get two copies, just in case you lose one.” 2) Market Wizards by Jack Schwager

"This is the central document showing the heuristics that real-life traders use to manage their affairs, how people who do rather than talk have done things. Twenty years from now, it will still be fresh. There is no other like it."

7 Books Recommended by Tim Ferriss:

1) Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

"Ben is one of the historical figures that I’ve been most obsessed with and I’ve recommended 'Benjamin Franklin: An American Life' to thousands and thousands of people." 2) Awareness by Anthony De Mello

"This short book has completely captured me. And just in the last two years, I’ve probably reread it five or six times.

5 books for people who are ambitious but lazy:

1) How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams 2) Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow

7 books that simplify complex topics:

1) Immune by Philipp Dettmer

( biology ) 2) Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

( computer science )

8 history books from different places and periods:

1) Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson

( Polynesia ) 2) Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend

( Aztecs )

Essentialism is the most impactful book I’ve ever read. It’s completely changed how I make decisions.

Key lessons thread: This graph visualizes spreading your energy over multiple things vs putting all of it into a single endeavor.

It’s the difference between knowing to play 12 sports vs becoming a world champion in one.

“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.”

Psycho-Cybernetics shows how you can exploit this phenomenon.

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