Recent book reviews:
Reading List
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
I just started putting this together and am not finished with the first version yet...I've gotta look through my book library and narrow down what I want to include here.
I love to write notes in and highlight my books, but I haven't had a good practice of going back through them to capture the good bits. This will be my motivation to go back and start capturing some of the notes from my favorite books, and while I'm at it, it might give you some ideas of what to read next. If I've done the effort to capture some notes from a book, those titles will be hyperlinked to their note page.
I recommend checking out your local libary or local book shop if you can -- Amazon has enough of our money. Or if you live near me, ask to borrow one as I have nearly all of these in physical format. Finally, if you have any recommendations for me, I'd love to hear them!
Thinking & Strategy
- Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Graham Allison & Philip Zelikow)
- Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke)
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- The Last Warrior (Andrew Krepinevich & Barry Watts)
Leadership
- Supreme Command (Elliot Cohen)
- Leaders Eat Last (Simon Sinek)
- Extreme Ownership (Jocko Willink)
- Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character & Leadership (Edgar Puryear, Jr.)
Philosophy
- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
International Relations
- Disunited Nations (Peter Zeihan)
- The Ugly American (William Lederer & Eugene Burdick)
Personal Growth
- Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian)
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
Technology
- The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI (Ben Buchanan & Andrew Imbrie)
- FINALLY, a book about AI that isn't tech-bro garbage
- Foreign Affairs: The Path to AI Arms Control America and China Must Work Together to Avert Catastrophe (Henry A. Kissinger and Graham Allison)
History
- The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
- Two Koreas (Don Oberdorfer)
Fiction
- Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy); the most beautiful prose I've ever read
- Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
- This book literally changed the course of my life when I read it in High School
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
- Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Graphic Novels
If you're into graphic novels/comics/manga, the following are my all-time favorites:
- Akira (the 1988 movie too!)
- Blame!
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Battleangel Alita
- Initial D