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Jul 18 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 biographies you should read this year:

1) Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

2) Skunk Works by Ben Rich

Jul 15 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to master the psychology of selling:

1) Gap Selling by Keenan

2) Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Jul 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

7 books to read before 2027:

1) Empire of AI by Karen Hao

2) The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson

Jul 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

6 books to understand and weaponize dopamine:

1) The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman

2) The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb

Jul 5 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to fall in love with science fiction:

1) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

2) All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Jul 5 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

10 underrated psychology books:

1) Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio

2) The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan

Jul 2 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

top 10 underrated history books:

1) The Transformation of the World by Jürgen Osterhammel

2) The Discovery of France by Graham Robb

Jul 1 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to fall in love with science:

1) Physics

What Is Real? by Adam Becker

2) Cosmology

How the Universe Got Its Spots by Janna Levin

Jun 28 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 books on how 10 empires rose and fell:

1) A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich

2) Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Jun 28 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 books on how 10 companies were founded (part 2):

1) The LEGO Story by Jens Andersen

2) Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine by Brock Yates

Jun 27 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to understand how your body works:

1) Brain

The Brain by David Eagleman

2) Heart

Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar

Jun 27 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

9 books to learn from history's greatest minds:

1) Essays by Michel de Montaigne

2) On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Jun 26 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

7 books to understand 7 forces shaping the future:

1) Machine Intelligence

The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman

2) Concentration of Power

The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Jun 25 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 books so good you'll finish them in one sitting:

1) Chess Story by Stefan Zweig

2) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Jun 24 • 10 tweets • 3 min read

9 books to think more clearly than 99% of people:

1) The Enigma of Reason by Mercier & Sperber

( why you're biased by design )

2) Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

( feedback loops & second-order effects )

Jun 22 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to understand 10 periods of history:

1) Late Bronze Age

1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline

2) Late Antiquity

The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

Jun 19 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

7 books to stop making emotional decisions:

1) The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

2) Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath

Jun 18 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to start 10 life-changing habits:

1) Meditation

Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana

2) Running

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Jun 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

7 books to read when you feel behind in life:

1) Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

2) Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard

Jun 12 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to master 10 skills:

1) Creativity

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

2) Rhetoric

Thank You for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs

Jun 12 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to fall in love with economics:

1) The Economist's Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum

2) The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson