2024 Reading List
Current:
- Tomorrow, The Stars - Robert A. Heinlein
- There Will be War - J.E. Pournelle
- Finance People: An Introduction to Their World and How They Think - Michael J. Schill
- The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Ray Dalio
Completed (33):
Politics/History
- One Billion Americans: The Case For Thinking Bigger - Matthew Yglesias
- The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All—but There Is a Solution - Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott
- The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life - Michael Wear
- Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia - John Dickie
- On Grand Strategy - John Lewis Gaddis
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Jonathan Haidt
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism - Tim Alberta
- Romney: A Reckoning - McKay Coppins
Crypto
- The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create - Steve Laczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
- Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy - George Gilder
- Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet - Chris Dixon
- Ethereum for Business: a Plain-English Guide to the Use Cases that Generate Returns from Asset Management to Payments to Supply Chains - Paul Brody
- Harvard Business Review: Blockchain - Various
Tech
- The Age of AI: And Our Human Future - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttonlocher
- Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies - Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
- Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
- Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology - Chris Miller
- What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley - Adrian Daub
- Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success - Tom Eisenmann
Business/Finance
- Investment Banking: Get the inside scoop you need to beat the competition on the Street - Tom Lott et. al.
- Central Banking 101 - Joseph Wang
- Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and get your Financial Life in Order - Erin Lowry
- The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded - Michael D. Watkins
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness - Morgan Housel
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation - Edward Chancellor
Misc. Nonfiction
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John C Maxwell
- Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age - Samuel D. James
- Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes - William Bridges
Fiction
- 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
- Dune - Frank Herbert