Bookshelf

2026

Book	Rating
Los Rostros de la Salsa by Leonardo Padura	TBD
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown	TBD
The Wager by David Grann	TBD
The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly	TBD
The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier	TBD
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki	TBD
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura	TBD
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki	TBD
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi	TBD
Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod	TBD
Beyond Defeat	TBD
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby	TBD
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer	TBD
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg	TBD
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield	TBD
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette	TBD
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov	TBD

Book	Rating
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin	S
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett	N/A
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson	A
Hyperion by Dan Simmons	S
Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy	A
Endurance by Alfred Lansing	S
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes	S
Source Code by Bill Gates	A
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri	TBD
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro	S
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro	S
Eat & Run by Scott Jurek	A
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami	S
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson	A
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky	N/A
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa	N/A

Book	Rating
A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman	A
1Q84	S
Von Neumann's Biography	B
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby	S
The Maniac	A
100 Years of Solitude	N/A
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport	A
The Mind Gym	N/A
Look Ahead by Cass Sunstein	B
No Man is an Island	B
Stalin: The Paradoxes of Power	S
1984 by George Orwell	S
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley	A
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis	A
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry	A
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting	S
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	A
Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs	N/A
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy	S
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War	S
Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro	A
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough	A
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell	A
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard	N/A
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes	N/A
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles	N/A
The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen	N/A
The NVIDIA Way by Tae Kim	S
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport	S

Book	Rating
The Three Body Problem (Volumes 1-3) by Cixin Liu	S
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford	A
Rethink your Position by Katy Bowman	B
The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski	A
An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson	S
Edison by Edmund Morris	A
Foundation by Isaac Asimov	A
Unix: A History and Memoir by Brian Kernighan	A
Die With Zero by Bill Perkins	S
Writing an Interpreter in Go	S
Writing a Compiler in Go	S
Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho	S
The Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis	B
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach	A
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs	In Progress
Dune 1 & Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert	S / A
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky	S
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson	S
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse	N/A
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk	A
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber	B
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius	S
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his Son	A
The C Programming Language Vol. 2 by Kernighan and Ritchie	S
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin	A
Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish	S
How to Know a Person by David Brooks	A
Build the Life You Want by Arthur Brooks	A
Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee	B

Book	Rating
Effortless by Greg McKeown	S

Book	Rating
Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson	N/A
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	N/A
Radical Compassion by Tara Brach	N/A

Book	Rating
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson	S
Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer	S
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink	S
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell	S
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday	S

Book	Rating
World Order by Henry Kissinger	S
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce	S
A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine	S
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt	S
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins	S

Book	Rating
Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss	N/A
The One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan	S
Pebbles of Perception by Laurence Endersen	S
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz	S
Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg	S
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder	N/A
Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven	S
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi	S
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett	S
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt	S
On Fire by John O'Leary	S
Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday	N/A
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt	S
Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazed	S

Book	Rating
Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reich	S
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer	S
Originals by Adam Grant	S
The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni	S
Light on Life by B.K.S. Iyengar	S

Book	Rating
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro	S
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor	S
The Power of Responsibility by Joelle Casteix	A
Scrum by Chris Sims	S

Book	Rating
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday	A
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford	S